I was kind of a bouncy kid. I used to roller-skate into the sides of cars.

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.

Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.

Faith removes fear from your mind by adding courage to your heart.

[T]hat mutual jealousy, that intolerantly keen edge of criticism, that irrational hunger for a beautiful perfection, that life and wisdom do presently and most mercifully dull.

Please don't assault me with that meat amalgam. It would surely cause infection

Don't believe everything you hear - even in your own mind.

No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

Thinking about interior peace destroys interior peace. The patient who constantly feels his pulse is not getting any better.

I'm not doing well. Don't try to talk about this to my sister Liz. She will know it sooner or later.

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does

The terrible thing about the internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The internet might give you what you want, but it won't give you what you need.