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"In light of that ... I knew I had to utilize my time very effectively and efficiently to get my work done"
Delroy LindoIf I said it, I believed it, and I’m sure it had to do with my ambitio — Delroy Lindo
"If I said it, I believed it, and I’m sure it had to do with my ambition to elevate myself and to be part of a system of work that elevated Black performers"
Delroy Lindo
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Delroy George Lindo is a British-born American actor. Starting his career in the 1975 stage production of Of Mice and Men, he later earned a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his work in the 1988 production of Joe Turner's Come and Gone. He received wider recognition with roles in several Spike Lee films, playing West Indian Archie in Malcolm X (1992), Woody Carmi
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