If we don't want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET, and the BET Awards and the Image Awards, where you're only awarded if you're black.

I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress.

I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?

I feel most sexy when I'm in love. My stomach flips. I get butterflies.

Past is always afraid of being forgotten because being forgotten means being never-existed in a way!

It is only by risking ... that we live at all.

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.

Some stones are so heavy only silence helps you carry them!

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.

[My childhood was ] spiritual than religious.

... I will never love, for I should never be loved as I desire to be loved.

I don't run the triathlons anymore like I used to. I do leg work on the machines and do the bike. I'm not as strong as I used to be, but I'm still good.

As for the end of the universe…I say let it come as it will, in ice, fire, or darkness. What did the universe ever do for me that I should mind its welfare?