I never thought I was pretty. I couldn't even put on eyelashes or makeup.

My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.

Struggle and survival, losing and winning, doesn't matter. It's entering the race that counts. You enter, you can win, you can lose .... but it's all about entering the race.

Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.

I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.

I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.

Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.

My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.

And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

The universe, it seemed, was full to brimming with lonesome places.

Just give us until Rome.” The tears escaped. “Just give us until Rome, Melanie.

She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.

I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

You can make an audience see nearly anything, if you yourself believe in it.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the feelings that you feel.

Speed has become an important element of strategy.

I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.