Excerpt from Jane Fonda: My Life So Far

I began to be aware that I was followed constantly and took care not to drive over the speed limit. Nonetheless, we were stopped numberous times on one pretext or another and I had to show my driver's liscense and registration. I saw it as a form of harrassment and realized that for the first time, I had stepped across the line that allows upper-class white people, especially celebrities, never to have to experience what other people, especially people of color, face all of the time- only far worse. There was a tightening in my stomach; I never knew what would happen next. I was aware of the possiblity that I might be set up, but I also felt a deepining resolve to not turn back.