A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.

If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary. If you are tremendously successful, and you're black, you are extraordinary, or you wouldn't stand out in this world.

It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week.

I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about.

I don't cook, so my favorite dish to prepare is something on the takeout menu.

We don't have to wait for people to green light our projects, we can create our own intersections.

What I've never wanted to do was allow myself to be put in a box, so I've tried to do a lot of different things so this is a step in trying to do something different so we'll see how it goes. I'm under no illusions that this is slam-dunk. I did the best I could and that's all I can rely on.