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I saw that I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. So I made a choice to use my career as a platform to address the issues of the race I was born into.

"For Cicely Tyson and Kerry Washington, Roles of a Lifetime". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. September 26, 2013.
I saw that I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. So I made a choice to use my career as a platform to address the issues of the race I was born into.