I do remember being teased by my cousins on my mom's side for not being black enough. And then I'd spend the summer with my dad and be sent to all white summer camps where I was 'that black girl.'

When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love.

Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself.

I've always been a performer. That's just what I know.

I like being in relationship because of the comfort it provides.

I don't have a lot of friends; most of the friends I have, I've had since high school.

For some odd reason, I like a man in sweatsuits. Obviously, you want your man to look good in a suit, but I like when men look comfortable, and the swagger just stands out of that.

I'm the little half-black, half-Jewish girl who was odd and awkward. I try to be myself.

I’ve always been a woman of faith.

I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me.

I have a hard time watching myself! Usually I do the work, and then I leave it. So I pretend like I'm not on TV every week.

A tornado of thought is unleashed after each new insight. This in turn results in an earthquake of assumptions. These are natural disasters that re-shape the spirit.

Expect nothing for no more heartbrakes.

I think work begets work.

Lighting a fire UNDER someone will never be as effective as Lighting a fire WITHIN someone.

You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.

Everything that we criticize young actresses for, they're supposed to do because that's when we're supposed to make mistakes. And find out who we are.

...It's important to distinguish between "worry versus harm" when it came to privacy online.

Awareness is empowering.

All the resources we need are in the mind.

The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.