I am not a glam woman - this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.

It's always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.

Relationships change us and make us grow.

I can't speak for the Kathryn Stockett, but I would guess that she feels proud of the progress the South has made because, growing up, she experienced a very different Mississippi than the one that exists today.

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated.

My husband [Julius Tennon] and I started a production company. We've already optioned a book and some scripts to do exactly that, to create more complicated, multi-faceted roles for African-Americans, especially African-American females. I think it's important.

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.