I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up.

You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.

My parents created a world in which the only ­barrier to your success is your own imagination.

Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in.

It's been a long time since Roe v. Wade, and I do think most people are able to have respect for other people's choices. Most people, I think, have accepted that it's not up to them to control other people's choices, except, it seems, when it comes to Washington, D.C., where everyone has an opinion about people's uteruses.

I cannot keep track and lots of great shows go unnoticed.

Everyone always says to me, 'Why aren't there more people of color on television?' I'm like, 'Why don't you ask a bunch of people who aren't putting people of color on television why there aren't more people of color on television?'