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.

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.

NASA spent millions of dollars inventing the ball-point pen so they could write in space. The Russians took a pencil.

Kids are important. The most important thing.

Nothing beats effective communication because it clears all doubts, misunderstandings, accusations, rumour, insecurities, gossip, hearsay, etc.

There are a countless variety of hardships in any life, " Kedean answered, "...only the most basic of which can be solved with mansions, gold pieces, and titles of nobility.

Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.

They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.

But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.

In loving and serving, we prove that we have been created in the likeness of God, for God is Love and when we love we are like God.

Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills.

God help this country if we're now prepared to vote for someone we don't trust. But every election cycle we do things we never dreamed of.