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. — John Amos Copy Share Image
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. — John Amos Copy Share Image
To teach means scarcely anything more than to show how things differ from one another in their different purposes, forms, and origins. ... Therefore,… — John Amos Copy Share Image
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… — John Amos Copy Share Image
They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast… — John Amos Copy Share Image
It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype. — John Amos Copy Share Image
I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico. — John Amos Copy Share Image
Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer. — John Amos Copy Share Image
