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 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'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.

There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.

Taken together the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot though.

Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it.

If the American president is going to rain, then the White House must be busy now of making clouds

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

Microsoft has changed the way people think about computers.

To say that on a daily basis you can make a difference, well, you can. One act of kindness a day can do it.

Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.

Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.