That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.

I'm a big child at heart. I think it's important to stay that way and not lose the wonder of life.

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

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.

Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she's been, where she is and where she's going.

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

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