My mother's white, and she didn't know how to do my hair, so I had something that I always call white-mama hair.

My parents pressed upon me that "In this world, you are a black woman," so I was political about my hair and would not straighten it.

There came a point when I wanted to do television, and I didn't think the Afro was going to play, so I made a very difficult choice - to straighten my hair.

Often hair is the way we are differentiated in this culture. To me the decision to straighten your hair is deeply political.

For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us.

I've done lots of pieces on self-esteem and hair. There's a desire to conform, but if the encouragement to be yourself is there from loved ones, you'll find that later, that true self will come out.

People who make mistakes are in the best position to make better choices.

In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.

Nobody who was shooting dice wanted to get a dance.

All I ever wanted was an unfair advantage

Creation is not a light-hearted game. The creator commits to a terrible adventure, which is to take up-on himself all of the dangers that his creatures run.

I go on a lot of hikes. I read a lot. I play piano.

Even if I'm playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality.

Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.