I had several teachers who inspired me, in both the public school system and the Upward Bound program. I needed several, because I lived in such abject poverty and dysfunction. And they're still in my life today, because I consider them to be friends, actually.

Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

No matter what, people don't think of me for glamorous parts. I'll go to an audition or a meeting in a pretty dress, and they still think of me as depressed or embattled. Hopefully, that will change.

When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.

Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.

When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.

I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that's changed my entire perspective.