To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid that release your past. Sweat is an ancient and universal form of self healing, whether done in the gym, the sauna, or the sweat lodge. I do it on the dance floor. The more you dance, the more you sweat. The more you sweat, the more you pray. The more you pray, the closer you come to ecstasy.

A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab.

I've got to learn to keep my mouth shut.

It's easier to believe in yourself after someone else has believed in you first.

Stopping an army, isn't that something you try 300 times before you do it?

There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.

In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.