Just because I was 30 doesn't mean I was grown. God, I was such an idiot. I was an absolute idiot at 30. And I grew up.

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

Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.

I want to span different genres. I want to be able to transform. I want to be able to be sexy, and funny, and quirky, and all the other things that I am. And I feel that the best way that I can achieve that is by producing.

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.

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

I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am