Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.

Motherhood sort of puts things into perspective, and it's bout real life, and life is about people, what we give, what we take, what we share.

Women slave for their hair! It's all about how we compare ourselves to other women, how we size ourselves up.

Nature has got it all wrong: When you are younger, it should be harder to get pregnant, and as you get older it should be easier. When you are so ready, you can't do it to save your life. And when you are 21, you are so not ready, but you are ripe as could be. The eggs should become more developed the older you get, not die slowly from the day you're born. That's one thing God got wrong.

I find when I have short hair, I feel like I have nothing to hide behind anymore.

As a woman, when you embrace where you are in life, then I think the struggle [life] isn't so hard. If you're 42 and still think you're an ingenue, then you've got a problem.

Nature has got it all wrong: When you are younger, it should be harder to get pregnant, and as you get older it should be easier.