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.

It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.

Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.

In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful, white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can't seem to get there no how. I can't seem to get over that line.

When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way.

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.

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.