When I set goals, they're more tangible than becoming famous. You don't build a company or a foundation for fame.

Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.

It was never a goal of mine to become famous. So, I never projected any goals associated with that. But I did have a bunch of goals I wanted to achieve when I was financially able to do so, but they had nothing to do with fame. When I set goals, they're more tangible than becoming famous. You don't build a company or a foundation for fame.

Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle.

I know I can act and it doesn't matter where you come from.

I came to America because of a tennis scholarship. I really wanted to get away because I was really frustrated about my injury so my mother said, "Go to America for four months and just open your eyes and see that there's more things than tennis." That's what happened.

It's a tremendous honor to be asked to carry a show.