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

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.

Anything involving the camera, you're passionate about. Because there's no movies without it.

There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

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

Coming from the '50s, things were very violent. We were still being lynched. If I drove down through the South with my mother, I might not make it through one state without being bullied or harassed. I feel like unless you've been black for a week, you don't know.