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.

I'll rise but I refuse to shine.

Do you have the discipline to be a free spirit?

My friends are very opinionated about the people I date.

There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.

It's not the gentle part I have a problem with, it's the dull, stupid part.

Xena, above all, remember your destiny. Remember it and fight, fight to come back. This world needs you. I need you.