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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 situation where a journalist unfairly generalized about the nature of romantic relationships among black men and women. She highlights that the journalist doubted the existence of deep love like that shown between the characters Rebecca and Nathan in the film Sounder.

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