I felt like I was being attacked, personally attacked - our community was attacked. Now, I gotta get in their face. I'm proud to be a woman. I'm proud to be a black woman. And I'm proud to be gay.

Writers get to stay with the piece. They don't just turn the script in and somebody else takes it over and goes out and produces it and edits it and all that stuff. We stay with the piece all the way through.

That word sassy - it haunts me. I keep getting the sassy thing.

I don’t understand why people really get upset about something that doesn’t affect them at all.

You can't make a woman happy. That's like trying to cure a fatal disease. The goal is to treat the symptoms so you can comfortably live with the illness.

What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

I'm finally just relaxed and comfortable with who I am.