I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international relations. I'm proud of my career, the first one, and I'm proud of the other two, too.

Don't forget to tell your favorite people that you love them.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.

I've led three lives: the acting part, wife and mother - which is a career - and international relations. I'm proud of my career, the first one, and I'm proud of the other two, too.

Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N.

We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black.