Living 'the struggle'
The way actor, writer and director Ossie Davis commands the rapt attention of an audience with his rich baritone voice-soothing and eloquent, yet impassioned at the same time-is an experience to behold. His robust appearance and presence-highlighted by his handsome face and silvery gray hair-belie his 79 years and "the struggle," as he calls it, that he has confronted throughout his personal and professional life.