One good step breeds another one.

I'm kind of floating out there as an artist. I'm in a safe place where I can play a girlfriend or a best friend or a mommy or a lawyer, but a huge part of me is unused. I'm classically trained, historically inclined and somewhat revolutionary by nature, so I'm frustrated as an artist.

Not just as a black woman, but as a woman, since the beginning of time, beauty has been our responsibility.

Take all the hype out of the exercise and think of it as brushing your teeth.

Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility.

It's not how pretty you are or how talented you are. It's that if these five people on this day in this room like you, then you get a job.

Any actor will tell you that you go where the work is, especially when you have children.