Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know. James Earl Jones anxietycowgrow Change image and share on social
So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school. James Earl Jones continuehighmichigan Change image and share on social
There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows. James Earl Jones blackcharactermean Change image and share on social
In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia. James Earl Jones ambrosiacitruscountry Change image and share on social
One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas. James Earl Jones aircraftboebrilliant share on social
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race. James Earl Jones begineventexcuse Change image and share on social
So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class. James Earl Jones anatomycallclass share on social
Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine. James Earl Jones creationdreamimagine Change image and share on social
Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter. James Earl Jones childfallfloor Change image and share on social
I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time. James Earl Jones 60sexplosivehappen share on social
