I don't have a Twitter account. I don't go to fan club gatherings. I'm not one of those actors who spends a lot of time engaging with the audience.

To sit back and do nothing is to cooperate with the oppressor.

We learn to be racist, therefore we can learn not to be racist. Racism is not genetical. It has everything to do with power.

I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.

Racism is a learned affliction and anything that is learned can be unlearned

We dont know anything about racism. Weve never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?

About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.

Somebody has to wear the black hat and give the audience someone to shake their fists at. They want someone to hate. And if that's what you want to pay me to do, I'm happy to do it!

I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are you going to do about it? Are you not going to go?

I think I'm the only 65-year-old actress in Los Angeles who hasn't had plastic surgery, so somebody's gotta play the old-lady parts!

All colours are the friends of their neighbours and the lovers of their opposites.

Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed.

Growing up, I didn't feel very cool having come from the Midlands.

The opposite of poverty is not wealth. I don't believe that. I actually think, in too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.

Idealism loses to pragmatism when it comes to winning elections.

Let the children use it, let the children lose it, let all the children boogie.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.

Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.