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

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 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.

Our culture is revered and it inspires people all around the globe.

The shortest distance between two people is a story.

There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time.

I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.

It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!

Garry Trudeau is the only cartoonist with the clout to get his strip published large enough to accomodate extended dialogue. It's ashame.

In a fire you have to be thoughtful, you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.

There are two choices available in duality - one side or the other side. Everyting is formed from that.

Change is hard, but change is good.

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.

The soul of woman lives in love.