Hair is an issue for most women, and after washing, blow-drying, flat-ironing, curling, braiding, twisting and spending the time and money on it, who wants to mess it up by sweating and having to do it all over again?

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.

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.

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.

I breastfed Sophie for 14 months and Nicolas for 11 months.

I couldn't imitate anyone if I wanted to.

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