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01Undated

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 entire life striving to reach the top of it.

Cicely Tyson / quote

02Undated

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 / quote

03Undated

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 / quote

04Undated

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 Sounder.

Cicely Tyson / quote

05Undated

You never know what motivates you.

Cicely Tyson / quote