Most people are dead. Hitler. Ray Charles. Some other guys. But mostly those two.

I do feel a lot of times like I'm out of my league with my kids in terms of what my responsibility is.

I was raised by a hard-working single mother, so my first role model was a woman. My only caretaker was a woman, and I have three sisters, so my community was girls. I have two girls, and my dog is a girl. My dead dog was a girl. I don't know. I guess I've always keyed in on that perspective.

Black people have slavery. And white people have our own thing-stuff we went though that hurt us that we have to cope with. Like when they took our slaves away. That was really hard for us. So it's pretty even.

I watch a lot of sports. But when I'm not working, I'm with my daughters every chance I get.

Friends should always tell you the truth. But please don’t.

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.