Americans have a hard time writing moms. I'll get a script and everything's really great and well-drawn, but the mom is like stock footage, they go and get that out. They plug it in, this idea of "mother." You could lift moms out of any script, no matter what the culture, what the neighborhood, what the economic status, and you could switch them around, and they'd be the same person. I think it's because most people don't really have a human idea, a specific life that they attach to who their mother was. Their mother was there for them, so it either gets deified, or the opposite.

Everyone has the impulse to be elite.

When you expect good, it's available constantly, and it makes itself a reality in your life.

When black women stick together, we are the most powerful force in the universe.

Once our storyline gets under way, I just hope people don't throw cabbages at me in the market.

I am not getting any younger and am taking a new approach to life.

I have always done what I wanted to do.