The next time you feel you have to say, "I love you" to someone, say it to yourself - and see if you believe it.

While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.

Never be bullied into silence.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

And I believe that you never be limited in what you do, so I like to do movies, I like to do television.

It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.

Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest.