No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland.
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I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.
It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.
Enrollment in colleges, especially black colleges, across the country increased tremendously during the five-year run of 'A Different World,' and I don't think you could have a better legacy than that.
If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?
Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade.
It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.
And I was the only black kid in my school for almost all of my childhood, until I was a teenager. So imagine, if you will, being 6 feet tall by third grade, so essentially being a living maypole.
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.
I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
I have enjoyed the years enormously in Cleveland and especially in Baltimore.
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