Everyone else can do violence. You know, Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, they can all do shoot-'em-ups. Arnold Schwarzenegger can kill 10 people in one minute, and they don't call it "white exploitation." They win awards and get into all the magazines. But if black people do it, suddenly it's different than if a white person does it. People respond differently because people come from different places.

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.

Struggle and survival, losing and winning, doesn't matter. It's entering the race that counts. You enter, you can win, you can lose .... but it's all about entering the race.

Some day I want to play a grandmother. And a foxy one at that!

My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues.

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

I'm still trying to do films about black women.