I think it's a great time to be a person of color and with talent. And actually, to be a woman as well. Our show is one of the most diverse television shows on television right now.

Stone Mountain, Georgia, still had Ku Klux Klan marches, and I had a wild and courageous mother who'd put us in the car to watch them. She wanted us to know those things existed.

Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.

I was the jokester, the one who made the family laugh.

I was kind of a bully, even though I'm tiny, 5' 2". As a child, I'd boss other kids around and dress my little brother up, just putting on shows, singing and dressing up.

I've been fortunate to work with Alfre Woodard and Jeffrey Wright; people who are artists, have careers, longevity and full lives. That looks good to me.

Meeting him was a miracle. He was a precious gift sent from God from heaven above!

Keep positive.Stay focused.Stand strong.Fight on.

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

I've had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we're truly after.

What do you say to taking chances?

Whatever. Great day. Today. Best day of my life.

There is no conflict in the absolute universe, but there is conflict in the relative world.

I refused to be a fool dancing on a string held by all of those big shots. I don't apologise, that's my life

Health will improve almost at once when worrying ends.

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.