I consider myself conscious of how we're treated, and sometimes I can be a feminist.

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

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.

I don't want to be an actress, because I think that they have to be really pretty, and I'm not.

I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.