“ Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage. Cicely Tyson
“ I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my ent… Cicely Tyson
“ I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounde… Cicely Tyson
“ Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch what make you go beyond the norm. Cicely Tyson
