I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.

My grandmother though, began to prepare in her own neurotic - and I think psychotic - way to face racism. So she taught us to be racist, which is something I had to undo later when I got to Michigan, you know.

You weren't going to the theatre to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.

I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.