“If you’re looking for an excuse, you’ll find one.”
Actor/Director Denzel Washington
60 Minutes interview December 18, 2016
I’m not sure where this quote originated, but hearing it from Denzel Washington was the first time I’ve heard it. While you can apply that thought to many areas of life, he said it in reference to diversity in Hollywood. Washington, a two-time Oscar winner, answer to #OscarSoWhite was not to protest or quit the business, but to make a film that comes out this month based on the play/screenplay Fences by August Wilson.
Me thinks Denzel won’t be absent at the 2017 Oscars.
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