My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.

My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.

I think I'm doing a service to black women by portraying myself as a sex machine. I mean, what's wrong with being a sex machine, darling? Sex is large, sex is life, sex is as large as life, so it appeals to anyone that's living, or rather it should.

I don't take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt... I hate them.

I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it's like you're opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don't know who's going to come in that door.

My husband used to shout at my mother, 'What is wrong with your daughter? I'm married to a man.'