We're dealing with old issues that aren't ours. We carry them and we pass them on to those who come after us. I am hoping to crack some of those.

I'm a big old egotistical baby and that's okay. I can accept it.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

If you read to me I could tell you everything that was read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

When I was nine years old, Star Trek came on, I looked at it and I went screaming through the house, 'Come here, mum, everybody, come quick, come quick, there's a black lady on television and she ain't no maid!' I knew right then and there I could be anything I wanted to be.

I won once [an Oscar]. So it can't be that racist.