6 Quotes & Sayings By Cicely Tyson

Cicely Tyson is one of the world’s most distinguished actresses. She has won two Academy Awards, four Tony Awards, a Grammy, an Emmy Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award. She is also the recipient of the National Medal of Arts and Humanities Service Award, among many other awards. Her work in television has earned her two Golden Globe nominations, six Primetime Emmy nominations and twenty-three NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series Read more

Tyson is currently starring in the Broadway revival of "The Trip to Bountiful" for which she received her sixth Tony nomination.

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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
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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
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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
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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
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You never know what motivates you. Cicely Tyson