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.

I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right. I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do. And I'm not willing to stay somewhere where I am really not happy. And I am not willing to pretend I am for the kid's sake or so that I don't have to go through another public humiliation.

I also have been called that terrible "N" word straight to my face and not known what to do about it because it was just in like 1993 that someone called me that.

I carried my Oscar to bed with me. My first and only three-way happened that night.

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.

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.