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Cicely Tyson Quote: “Healing, as I see it, is not the absence of pain. Rather, it is a gradual reduction in the ache. The.”

51. “Healing, as I see it, is not the absence of pain. Rather, it is a gradual reduction in the ache. The.”

— Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson Quote: “Concealing is the human way of pretending that we are who we imagine ourselves to be in the fairy tales we invent, that our lives have unfolded as we wish they would have rather than as they so wrenchingly do.”

52. “Concealing is the human way of pretending that we are who we imagine ourselves to be in the fairy tales we invent, that our lives have unfolded as we wish they would have rather than as they so wrenchingly do.”

— Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson Quote: “Let me tell you something, girl,” she said. “What’s for you in this life, you will get. And what is not for you, you will never get. Do you hear me?”

53. “Let me tell you something, girl,” she said. “What’s for you in this life, you will get. And what is not for you, you will never get. Do you hear me?”

— Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson Quote: “What’s for you in this life, you will get. And what is not for you, you will never get. Do you hear me?”

54. “What’s for you in this life, you will get. And what is not for you, you will never get. Do you hear me?”

— Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson Quote: “When a pivot is predestined on the stone tablet of your life story, there is often an inexplicable ease to it. It feels otherworldly, from an Almighty source beyond your frail humanity.”

55. “When a pivot is predestined on the stone tablet of your life story, there is often an inexplicable ease to it. It feels otherworldly, from an Almighty source beyond your frail humanity.”

— Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson Quote: “White folks have been Other-izing us for hundreds of years, initially because that served their purpose in justifying our enslavement. Brutes, or those labeled as less than human, needn’t be accorded respect. Just as they have policed our bodies, they have criminalized our tresses while attempting to extinguish our very existence. In minstrel shows, in books, on television, in kitchen-table conversations, our natural hair has always been under siege in a calculated campaign to devalue us.”

56. “White folks have been Other-izing us for hundreds of years, initially because that served their purpose in justifying our enslavement. Brutes, or those labeled as less than human, needn’t be accorded respect. Just as they have policed our bodies, they have criminalized our tresses while attempting to extinguish our very existence. In minstrel shows, in books, on television, in kitchen-table conversations, our natural hair has always been under siege in a calculated campaign to devalue us.”

— Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson Quote: “You don’t have to be touched to be emotionally robbed.”

57. “You don’t have to be touched to be emotionally robbed.”

— Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson Quote: “The lie of Black inferiority was built right into America’s infrastructure, and to this day, that framework remains stubbornly intact.”

58. “The lie of Black inferiority was built right into America’s infrastructure, and to this day, that framework remains stubbornly intact.”

— Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson Quote: “My mother’s falsehoods were not outright fabrications but lies of omission.”

59. “My mother’s falsehoods were not outright fabrications but lies of omission.”

— Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson Quote: “I bickered weekly with my mother, railed against her rule more than I dared to during childhood. I see now that I wasn’t fighting against her, but for myself. Defying her voice was my way of making space for my own, however feeble and uncertain. At the heart of our disputes lived my struggle for womanhood, my yearning to trust God’s whispers and tune out all others.”

60. “I bickered weekly with my mother, railed against her rule more than I dared to during childhood. I see now that I wasn’t fighting against her, but for myself. Defying her voice was my way of making space for my own, however feeble and uncertain. At the heart of our disputes lived my struggle for womanhood, my yearning to trust God’s whispers and tune out all others.”

— Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson Quote: “Over and over in our world, we have witnessed how today’s riches can become tomorrow’s scarcity. We’d do well to heed the lesson. In times of plenty, paucity sits by, licking its lips and awaiting its next grand appearance.”

61. “Over and over in our world, we have witnessed how today’s riches can become tomorrow’s scarcity. We’d do well to heed the lesson. In times of plenty, paucity sits by, licking its lips and awaiting its next grand appearance.”

— Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson Quote: “My true identity isn’t rooted in our history, grievous and glorious as it is. It is grounded in my designation as a child of God, the daughter of the Great Physician. In his care, I find my cure.”

62. “My true identity isn’t rooted in our history, grievous and glorious as it is. It is grounded in my designation as a child of God, the daughter of the Great Physician. In his care, I find my cure.”

— Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson Quote: “If they don’t give you a seat at the table,” Shirley Chisholm once said, “bring a folding chair.” Tyler did one better and built his own dining set, complete with all he needs to finance his storytelling.”

63. “If they don’t give you a seat at the table,” Shirley Chisholm once said, “bring a folding chair.” Tyler did one better and built his own dining set, complete with all he needs to finance his storytelling.”

— Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson Quote: “Around the business, I have sometimes been called difficult. The truth is that I insist upon respect. I don’t take any tea for the fever, child. Even now, at age ninety-six, I teach folks not to mess with me.”

64. “Around the business, I have sometimes been called difficult. The truth is that I insist upon respect. I don’t take any tea for the fever, child. Even now, at age ninety-six, I teach folks not to mess with me.”

— Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson Quote: “Rather, it was the Savior, by way of a pontiff’s warm palm, who kept me safe in his care.”

65. “Rather, it was the Savior, by way of a pontiff’s warm palm, who kept me safe in his care.”

— Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson Quote: “That is, in this life, who we are for one another – fellow sojourners and witnesses. We are here to see and hear one another.”

66. “That is, in this life, who we are for one another – fellow sojourners and witnesses. We are here to see and hear one another.”

— Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson Quote: “Healing, as I see it, is not the absence of pain. Rather it is a gradual reduction in the ache. The lessening of that hurt eventually makes room for fond memories to surface.”

67. “Healing, as I see it, is not the absence of pain. Rather it is a gradual reduction in the ache. The lessening of that hurt eventually makes room for fond memories to surface.”

— Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson Quote: “The Father has a way of choosing the flawed to attempt what many deem improbable.”

68. “The Father has a way of choosing the flawed to attempt what many deem improbable.”

— Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson Quote: “In the life of every Black child, a moment arrives when he or she becomes wrenchingly aware of how we are perceived. This bruising recognition was among my first.”

69. “In the life of every Black child, a moment arrives when he or she becomes wrenchingly aware of how we are perceived. This bruising recognition was among my first.”

— Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson Quote: “America has our blood on its palms, our flesh between its teeth. When you come to understand what we have endured, when you let the barefaced savagery of it all truly penetrate, you are forever haunted by the horror.”

70. “America has our blood on its palms, our flesh between its teeth. When you come to understand what we have endured, when you let the barefaced savagery of it all truly penetrate, you are forever haunted by the horror.”

— Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson Quote: “People don’t come out of nowhere. They have roots.” Someone’s appearance and demeanor, she reasoned, offer clues to those beginnings, to the whys and hows of that person’s present state. That notion becomes applicable when analyzing a character, when noticing how his or her story may manifest in every tic and sway, every lurch forward. Infusing a portrayal with such layers of truth is an actor’s greatest aspiration.”

71. “People don’t come out of nowhere. They have roots.” Someone’s appearance and demeanor, she reasoned, offer clues to those beginnings, to the whys and hows of that person’s present state. That notion becomes applicable when analyzing a character, when noticing how his or her story may manifest in every tic and sway, every lurch forward. Infusing a portrayal with such layers of truth is an actor’s greatest aspiration.”

— Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson Quote: “Social transformation is not measured in weeks or months, but in generation.”

72. “Social transformation is not measured in weeks or months, but in generation.”

— Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson Quote: “I couldn’t help but think of the innocent Black men and women who’d hung from the branches above me, their cries cut short by the pull of a noose, their feet swaying back and forth, the blood draining from their faces along with their unfulfilled dreams. When I remember the thousands who died, many whose stories were never recorded in history, I bow my head. And when my wailing is done, I get up and I carry on, not in my own name, but in theirs.”

73. “I couldn’t help but think of the innocent Black men and women who’d hung from the branches above me, their cries cut short by the pull of a noose, their feet swaying back and forth, the blood draining from their faces along with their unfulfilled dreams. When I remember the thousands who died, many whose stories were never recorded in history, I bow my head. And when my wailing is done, I get up and I carry on, not in my own name, but in theirs.”

— Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson Quote: “When someone violates you sexually, it does not simply haunt and aggrieve you; it alters the very shape of your soul.”

74. “When someone violates you sexually, it does not simply haunt and aggrieve you; it alters the very shape of your soul.”

— Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson Quote: “I began reading, taking in all I could about our history, about the assaults that tested us but could not break us. It stung me even as it flung open my eyes. America has our blood on its palms, our flesh between its teeth. When you come to understand what we have endured, when you let the barefaced savagery of it all truly penetrate, you are forever haunted by the horror.”

75. “I began reading, taking in all I could about our history, about the assaults that tested us but could not break us. It stung me even as it flung open my eyes. America has our blood on its palms, our flesh between its teeth. When you come to understand what we have endured, when you let the barefaced savagery of it all truly penetrate, you are forever haunted by the horror.”

— Cicely Tyson

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