Wesley Snipes, Hollywood's hottest new star talks about: his divorce, his days on the streets and why he doesn't have 'jungle fever.' - Cover Story
Ebony, Sept, 1991 by Laura B. Randolph
But if the actor is angry, he is hardly resigned. If Wesley Snipes is sure of anything, it is his Blackness. "You will never hear me say I don't see myself as a Black actor but just an actor who happens to be Black. Every chance I get I'm going to tell you I'm an African-American man who is acting.
I'm going to let you know andI will not allow anybody to say otherwise. . . . I have a passionate love for African people and [African] culture. That's the bottom line. And I'mnot going to compromise on it under any circumstances," says Snipes with the certainty of a man whose life is better than his dreams.
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