Mahershala Ali“I’ve always looked to various people—leaders that I admire—and tried to incorporate their best qualities into my life, whether it’s their wisdom, their goodness or their skill. But I understood early on that I also needed to act as my own leader because sometimes the people I elevated disappointed me. The things Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. accomplished really resonated with me in my youth. Now I’m playing the musician Don Shirley in Green Book, and I view him as a leader, too. He went on a tour of the South, playing piano, in 1962.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 29, 2018 18:33 UTC