Donald Crouch in high school said, “Do you like these words?” I was then writing words of my own. He said, “Do you like these words? Do you like the way they sound in your head?” He said, “Well, they sound ten times better when you give ’em out in the air. It’s too bad you can’t say these words.” He began to challenge me, to nudge me toward speaking again, and by using my own poetry — and then other poets because he himself was a compatriot of Robert Frost, he himself was a poet. He himself said he learned a poem a day. In case he went blind, he’d have a whole book of poems in his head. And he nudged me toward that, toward acknowledging and appreciating the beauty of words.
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James Earl Jones
Actor of stage and screen; voice of Darth Vader and Mufasa
United States · 1931–2024
Arts and letters
Mute for most of his childhood after a severe stutter, he became one of the most recognisable voices in American film and one of a small number of performers to win the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. Won Tony Awards for The Great White Hope and Fences.
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