I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.

[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!

Most women do not have [abortions] with some sort of party going on. It is the hardest decision that a woman ever has to make . . . One of the reasons we've had to make this decision is because so many women were found bleeding, dead, with hangers in their bodies because they were doing it themselves. The idea of this was to make it safe and clean - that was the reason the law came into effect.

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

There are roles I am never considered for. Meryl Streep roles, let's say. Why not? I really wanted to do 'Ironweed,' for example, because the depression era in this country was one of the best for multiracial people, because everybody was poor. Everybody lived in the tents, and under buildings, and under gratings, together.

Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.