Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.

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

I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.

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.

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

When you come from an environment that's military, and they don't stress that topic of aesthetics or beauty pageants and makeup, there are a lot of things you just don't have that city girls have. Or the country girl who goes to movies and dreams of going to Hollywood as an actress.

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.