My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.

I’ve tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough.

Sarah Palin is to women what John Wayne Gacy was to birthday clowns.