James Earl Jones Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.

Trivia

While in college, was a member of the Pershing Rifles, Co. M-3, a collegiate fraternal organizations for members of the school's ROTC program. Other members of this organization include

He graduated from The University of Michigan.

Jones won a Tony Award in 1969 for The Great White Hope.

He was hospitalised with pneumonia while performing in On Golden Pond on Broadway in June 2005.

Jones is widely believed to be politically conservative, since he voiced his support for the Iraq war in October 2002, and also said he had supported the first Gulf War and the Kosovo War. However, in another interview he stated that his endorsement is not for hire, and described his political beliefs as a private matter.

The Simpsons' episode where Bleeding Gums Murphy died (Round Springfield) has a tribute to Jones where Simpsons' cast member

Jones' death was erroneously announced in 1998 by Pittsburgh Pirates radio Baseball commentator Larry Frattare when James Earl Ray died.

He was in Field of Dreams.