As an actor, you learn, every time you work.

We're dealing with that question now, in the media. How does the judicial system work? There's never going to be a clear-cut answer, but it's a conversation and a conflict in the community. It's not a white thing or a black thing. It's a society thing and a culture thing, and we've gotta figure it out.

As long as I didn't have to put on the tiara and the chains and the big yellow shirt for the whole series, I was up for anything.

I don't have social media so I'm kind of in a bubble, but I hear there's a lot going on.

A lot of times in life, women want to talk, but men don't want to listen, and if they do want to listen, they turn it back to themselves.

Some people get divorced, they leave the person for a couple of years, then they remarry. Relationships are very, very strange.

When you look at Harlem - and I lived there almost five years - most of the people who live in Harlem are transplants. They migrate to Harlem from another place. A lot of them are from the south, so they bring those southern influences with them.