I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.

I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes.

Unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.

I do believe that everyone has something to contribute.

For me, when you have to prepare to play God, and then walking away from that, you realize just how tough God's job is. I don't want that job.

I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.

You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.