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

The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.

I've done a really bad job with teaching daughter to put on makeup, but I have taught her how to put on lipstick.

If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don't see it.

People call me a theater actor, but I'm just an actor. But I tell my friends all the time - especially a lot that do theater and haven't done a lot of TV/film - that you have so much more control over your work onstage. When you go onstage, you can really see the difference between people who can really do it, and people who are just kind of pretending to do it. There is no editor, there's nothing that's going to stop the actor from showing what they can do unless it's not a well-written role.

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it's filet mignon.