I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times.

They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history.

It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.

We need to protect the resources and livelihoods, not just the ones we have today, but in the future, too. We have an opportunity to get it right and that's important to the entire nation.

I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico.

I have rededicated myself to my procession as a way of honoring him.