The reason most of the children are having problems in any inner-city neighborhood is because they don't see enough positive role models in their own environment.

Everything must change and you do what you can with the changes that are made. You can't stop it. You can't fight it. Everybody tries to go back to yesterday, but you can't go back to yesterday. The only time there is, is now.

I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place.

Nothing is out of our realm, because it has nothing to do with color. As black people, we're not different from anyone else, other than the exterior.

Dave Chappelle asked me to come do his show. I read the script, and I said, 'Has he lost his mind?'

In my life I've learned that true happiness comes from giving. Helping others along the way makes you evaluate who you are. I think that love is what we're all searching for. I haven't come across anyone who didn't become a better person through love.

I never thought I was a great mom. I always worked. I fell in love with my children as they got older.