Unfortunately, I'm allergic to all animals and even some people.

I'm neither sexy nor a star.

If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.

You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.

My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.

I have my own personal wish list.

It's very much a back and forth conversation between the fans and the writers, between the writers and the powers that be. Their opinions, especially when expressed online or via correspondence, are important and are taken into consideration.