I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.

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

Yes, you can have art films about the triumph of the human spirit and all of that, but you'll have it done with a big-budget icon with a $20 million salary. You'll have Julia Roberts, you'll have Robert Redford, you'll have Russell Crowe doing those films, because if they're going to cost $90 million, they're going to make that movie for a public that's very large and mainstream. They're not going to make it for three or four million black people.

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

Thats what I crave that diversity.

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.

I think people will have great conversations about religions, women's sexuality, gender issues and gay issues.