When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.

I believe that if we have to pay 100 percent for our college tuition, and then we get into the workplace, and we're only given 70 percent of our counterparts' salaries, then we shouldn't have to pay but 70 percent of our college tuition. Maybe that'll stop the bullshit.

But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.

I'm just going to try to do the best work at whatever I'm going to be, and I don't think I'm going to be an actress.

If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.

That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.