Paul Winfield(1939-2004)

Gifted at playing the violin and cello, he was given a scholarship to Yale University on these merits but turned down the scholarship. He attended the University of Portland; Stanford University; Los Angeles City College; the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of Hawai'i; and the University of California, Santa Barbara, but did not receive a degree from any of them.

I was given a lot of prestige as a distinguished black actor but very little power. They give prestige out by the buckets, but they give power by the teaspoon, just enough to stroke your ego.