Let's start working towards wellness, a healing in our community, a healing in relationships, so male and female can finally sit down and understand that that young boy or young girl saw behavior exhibited by their parents that was negative and abusive and they're going to pass it on.

I'm not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females.

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.

You never know how people are going to respond.

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

Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.

I never thought I was pretty. I couldn't even put on eyelashes or makeup.