Life Lessons From the Legendary Cicely Tyson
An interview with the 96-year-old iconic actress about her new memoir
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1 min readJan 29, 2021
“For eight decades, Cicely Tyson has captured our hearts and our dreams whether on the small screen in Roots or How to Get Away With Murder, the silver screen in The Help or Sounder, or the theatre in The Trip to Bountiful and The Gin Game. Now she can add author to her multi-hyphenate identity.
In Just As I Am, Tyson writes about her humble beginnings in Harlem with her West Indian parents, the adolescent pitfalls, the false starts, the acting and theatre intrigue, as well as her love life, particularly with the late great Miles Davis. There is wisdom, reflection, and, most of all, a softness to her prose that is a gift of a record from one of your most storied Black actresses.” — Morgan Jerkins
Read the interview in its entirety below.
