My job as an artist is to present the material. My job as a woman is to receive from it what I need.

You just keep moving forward and doing what you do, and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.

As we women know, there are so many other hurdles that we have to cross that I would love it if we could stop having the race conversation so that we can get women further on. You know, a female president now that we have an African American president. Maybe we can get an Asian female, a gay person?

I gotta go home and feed my eels. They're not electric, but I have a plan.

I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

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.

God in my mind gives you what you need. So, if you need God to be a black woman and you need that for whatever your reasons are, then perhaps your blessings will come in that form.