I like to make collages - paper collages.

Editing is a natural extension of collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just work, and also be true to yourself.

I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.

Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.

So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.

In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls get out there in the lead part. So we're developing something.

Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

Real happiness and peace is attained only if one comes into one’s true Self.

Art teaches something we all need to learn, especially about people who are different from ourselves: "To see things the way they truly are, sometimes you have to look more deeply.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design.

It doesn't really matter what time it is if you haven't determined what to do with your time.

The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.

The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.

Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other and have the courage to accept each other as we are.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.