Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them.

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

I enjoy using coconut oil - not only for my skin and hair, but I'll digest it.

A guy once told me that I sound like I’m a little ahead of myself. I can’t wait to thank him at the Oscars.

We're all moving at such a high rate that we have to grab frozen dinners and McDonald's. We can't make it a way of life - we have to get back to real, simple, clean good foods. It will save our lives on so many levels; not just spina bifida, but obesity, diabetes, everything. Food is our medicine.

When you set a play in the French Quarter in New Orleans, it's hard not to acknowledge the whole African-American, French, white mixing of races. That's what the French Quarter is: it's a Creole community.

Being a pedestrian again is very exciting because in L.A. you live in your car, and you're on a freeway all the time.