Im very easy going and low maintenance when it comes to my hair.

I can dine at the White House, but I can still hang at the 'hood.

When I think of black television and history, I always use The Cosby Show as the bar.

Until you can be happy, you can't facilitate happiness for anybody else.

Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you're missionary about.

You've got to be around people who encourage you, advice you and want to see you go even higher and higher than they themselves have attained!

No affairs for me. It is so wonderful to have a family to come home to, to sit with them, pull each other's legs... To lose all of that for what? Who's got the time? I'm having great fun working.

I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit.

You have to have great design to be competitive in today’s markets.

I definitely knew that I loved acting from the very beginning. I was such a ham growing up. Wherever the camera was, I wanted to be right in front of it.

Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.

If you can't be proud of what you do, go and sell shoes. Do something else.

I'm puttin' pressure on you kids like I'm a soccer mom.