After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?

I would say a magical thing happened on when the big 40th birthday came. I felt like a light kind of just went off, and maybe that's because I felt like at 40 I had the right to say and be who I wanted to be, say what I wanted to say, and accept what I didn't want to accept.

I've pretty much learned I can let that [being black] hinder me if I want to ... or I can fight for different kinds of roles.

There have been so many people who have said to me, 'You can't do that,' but I've had an innate belief that they were wrong. Be unwavering and relentless in your approach.

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.

Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my roles as a mother.