Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.

Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.

As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.

We all hope that the police and prosecutors are objective. That's their job, but sometimes it's not true.

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.

I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain 'what's up with black folks.'

I don't think it's good when entertainment tries to proselytize and I don't think people ultimately want someone showing up in their living room and just hectoring at them all day long. But if you can create a space where people are caught up in something - whether it's a drama, a comedy, a romantic comedy, or science fiction - that's when people give over their minds and allow their emotions to flow.