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John Amos

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[Wikipedia] John Allen Amos Jr. was an American actor. He was best known for his role as James Evans Sr. on the CBS television series Good Times. His other well known roles were as the adult Kunta Kinte in the landmark miniseries Roots and for portraying Captain Meissner in Lock Up (1989) and Major Grant in Die

Quotes by John Amos

To teach means scarcely anything more than to show how things differ from one another in their different purposes, forms, and origins.…

Different

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I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy...…

Back

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They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I…

Again

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

Ongoing

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

Area

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Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer.

Accepting

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