Probably the person who said the only color in Los Angeles is green was right.

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.

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.

Those in the margins are always trying to get to the center, and those at the center, frequently in the name of tradition, are trying to keep the margins at a distance.

I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.

I love studying how people are. Not just what they're saying, but how they are, what they're doing.