Im a songwriter and Id love to make that a part of my career.

The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.

My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.

My mom was really busy when I was growing up, but she did a really good job in terms of balancing her home life with her professional life. She basically took me everywhere.

I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the first place.

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

I started playing piano when I was around four; thats my first passion.

When I'm in Los Angeles, sometimes I hesitate saying that I'm an actor because people are like, "Of course you are." And I'm like "No, not, 'Of course I am.'"

My thing is that if you don't really connect to something or see that it's going to be something you're going to be proud of, I wouldn't do it.

Personally, especially as a young black woman, I didn't think that Los Angeles was a place for me to start. There's a certain type that they go for or don't.

To fully understand how utterly amazing we really are we must first understand all of the things about us that are not, and then we must make our habitation where they are not.

Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.

Let the influx of money be ever so great, if there be no confidence, property will sink in value... The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

Around the world today people are spontaneously spawning a culture dedicated to creating conditions conducive to life.

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; its a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.

If you don't watch your figure, you'll have more figure to watch.

I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.

We see light, not dark. But it is in the dark that we feel goblins and ghosts.