My biggest fear is that a paparazzi or someone ... is going to come in my backyard and see me when I get in my pool. That would be very unfortunate.

There's not one woman in America who does not care about her hair, but we give it way too much value. We deprive ourselves of things, we use it to destroy each other, we'll look at a child and judge a mother and her sense of motherhood by the way the child's hair looks. I am not going to traumatize my child about her hair. I want her to love her hair.

I think at the end of the day she [Rose from "Fences"] is a strong woman in the truest sense of the word. I think all of that is in the narrative; it's already there. The hope is there; the playfulness is there; it's there. I wish I could take credit for it, but it's there.

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.

And "classically not beautiful" is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.

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

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