In his 92 years, African-American businessman Horace Bowers Sr.—one of the two main subjects of the Oscar-nominated short documentary A Concerto Is a Conversation—has faced many obstacles in his path.
He’s always found a way around them.“In any life people have some ups and downs. I’ve had them, but I was able to come out of them and keep moving without being crushed,” Bowers tells Deadline. “Sometimes we can be crushed to a point that we just don’t feel like moving again.
I’ve never reached that point. I always figure, well, if they knock me down I’m going to get up and go anyway.”Many of the barriers he encountered were the result of his race.
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