I'm in film school, so I really have to sock away my money for school, tuition, and so on, and I really don't have time.

I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.

The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.

I don't want to be an actress, because I think that they have to be really pretty, and I'm not.

You never know how people are going to respond.

Women were victims. Their husbands could beat them up when they wanted to. They couldn't work. They could be maimed and killed by their husbands.

Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.