A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery so the old women have to have it.

Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".

My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mother smiling in the choir, and I wanted to know this God that made her so happy. If I had not had that faith in my life, I don't know where I would be right now.

Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I'm not sure what took them so long to see that or how long they'll keep it up.

I'm just enjoying my life.I suggest you try it.

My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through.

If you're black, you can't just be ordinary. All successful black people are extraordinary.