I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.

A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.

I've always been extremely physically active.

I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a performance and Shakespeare plays where you have to fight.

If you're a fighter, you recognize a fighter.

I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write.

People with nothing to hide don't usually feel the need to say so.

I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them with ease. And then along came Obama.

My favorite TV shows are Orange Is the New Black, House of Cards, Modern Family, and Veep.

You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.

My assumption is I'm not going to be recognized. But when I am, I'm like, "Dang, you know who I am?" I always think I look so different.

Things are neither good nor bad, all that matters is our thinking....!

Because you speak to me in words, and I look at you with feelings.

It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.

Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences.

Enrolling in the Medicare Prescription Drug Program will be a great savings for most senior citizens.

The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.

Pere Noel. Babbo Natale. Pelznickel. Topo Gigio