Cicely Tyson was steely yet stylish, humble and grateful
The actress, who died last month at age 96, infused her roles with dignity, strength and unabashed pride in her Blackness.
The legendary actress Cicely Tyson died last month at age 96.(Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times via Getty Imag)
By Lorrie Irby Jackson
“I am alive because of the blood of proud people who never scraped or begged or apologized for what they were. They lived asking only one thing of this world — to be allowed to be.”
These words were spoken by Mrs. Browne, the mother of a naive and stubbornly independent daughter, in the 1989 miniseries