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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 Sounder.

Cicely Tyson

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Cicely Tyson is describing a moment when a journalist generalized that black men and women did not experience the deep, loving relationship portrayed by the characters Rebecca and Nathan in the film Sounder. She recalls being in California when this unfair assumption was made, highlighting the journalist's lack of understanding or recognition of such relationships.

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