I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.

When you hear the ex-politician tell you that the reason they created the War on Drugs was to get black people and to get hippies...that to me is just as shitty as saying all Mexicans are murderers and rapists. Or all Muslims. That's what I'm paying attention to. And everybody is hedging their bets when it comes to marijuana. The government is sitting on this lie saying it's a gateway drug.

If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.

Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it's because you're talented.

Actors have no color. That's the art form.

I have witnessed things the ancients would have called miracles, but they are not miracles. They are the products of someone's dream, and they happen as the result of hard work.