When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.

I'm passionate about what I do. I'd be naive to be passive.

Arizona has always been anti-black.

If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy.

You can't pick when you're touched. You can't pick the time. It just is. It's the reality. What it is, is. I can't change the past. I can only deal with the present and the future.

A woman can tell me about her having a baby, but I'll never know what it is to have a baby.

When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You understand? Everyone knew the rules, and everyone knew their place. Everyone knew what to say. They had the written rules in Hollywood film, and the unwritten rules.