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.

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

Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

It's the best honor when someone wants to use as their professional title the name of a character that you portrayed.

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

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

Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.