I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults.

Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

Because my mom always told me that I could. From a very early age, I felt comfortable leading.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

There’s something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It’s a different perspective. It is a reflection as opposed to an interpretation, and I think we get a lot of interpretations about the lives of women that are not coming from women.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

There's never been a film with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the center released in theaters. Ever! One does not exist. You've only seen tele-films and stage plays about him. Yet, we have big screens biopics about all kinds of people. So, I think it's only right that there be a full-length feature about Dr. King. I don't think there could be enough of them, but there should be at least one. So, here it is!