I've always been a performer. That's just what I know.

When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love.

Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself.

I like being in relationship because of the comfort it provides.

I don't have a lot of friends; most of the friends I have, I've had since high school.

For some odd reason, I like a man in sweatsuits. Obviously, you want your man to look good in a suit, but I like when men look comfortable, and the swagger just stands out of that.

I'm the little half-black, half-Jewish girl who was odd and awkward. I try to be myself.

I’ve always been a woman of faith.

I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me.

I do remember being teased by my cousins on my mom's side for not being black enough. And then I'd spend the summer with my dad and be sent to all white summer camps where I was 'that black girl.'

I have a hard time watching myself! Usually I do the work, and then I leave it. So I pretend like I'm not on TV every week.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others by means of love friendship indignation and compassion.

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

We are natural mind changing entities until we are 10 or so. But as we get older...then it is very hard to change our minds

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

If I'm going to work, hopefully I have a late call time, and can hang out with Rain and our nanny until we shoot.

Chastity is now treated as a sexual problem.

Few Christians go into media or the arts today, or see it as a primary mission field or battlefield. But it is.

The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.

Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

No matter how you feel you have to act like you are very popular with yourself; very relaxed and purposeful very unconfused and not like you are walking through the sunshine singing in chains.