I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.

You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.

I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.

I think what I am is a "convener"; I like to convene people around ideas.

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.