Interview - Dennis Haysbert: That's a very powerful film. You know, she was blind, all she felt was a beautiful human being. I found the symbolism in that incredible. And, with Raymond, I just saw a man that was living outside of his time, you know? But then, again, not really, because I think there were a lot of people in that time period that went that way. I don't see myself, I've never seen myself … and based largely, in part, to maybe hearing that one line in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner when Sidney Poitier's character is speaking to his father. His father says how crazy he was for doing this [marrying a white woman]. He says, "Well, Dad, the problem is, you see yourself as a black man. I see myself as a man." I know I will no longer call myself an African-American, I call myself an American of African descent. Because if I was to go to Africa and say, "I'm an African-American," they would laugh at me. Quite literally, they would probably split their sides laughing, "You're not an African. You're an American." And that's the truth. My parents were Americans, my parents' parents were Americans, you know, and go all the way back until you get to those ancestors that did come over on that boat. Those were Africans. Everybody since then has been an American of African descent.
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