And blacks understood it perfectly, and laughed heartily at it. |
He acted as though he didn't know where he was, and he immediately got the attention of the producers and the director of the film. He was chosen for the part on that basis -- they didn't know what to think of him. They were astounded by him. |
He wasn't defeated. Although he was bitter, he was still fighting to reconstruct that image. |
This is an amazingly complex man. Intelligent -- and he was anything but what people take him to be. |