If you're a boxer, you want to get the ring with a Mike Tyson or Muhammad Ali type. When you're acting, you want to get in with Meryl Streep, and that's what I did.

I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?"

I did want to mark the fact that it was the first African-American to win the Lead Actress category.I thought it was so progressive.

Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.

All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.

Relationships change us and make us grow.

It made me realize again how complicated being a mother is. You have 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million beautiful, joyous ones.