My passion is to tell stories that reflect humanity.

My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.

Struggle and survival, losing and winning, doesn't matter. It's entering the race that counts. You enter, you can win, you can lose .... but it's all about entering the race.

Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.

I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.

I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.

Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.

My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.

And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death?

Barbican Yoga Cave is a oasis for stress bust

What a stupid attitude we have in this country to personal stories.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

I'm definitely a singer, but I play. I write music too, but it's all coming from the same source. I have never learned an instrument any other way than by myself.

When your trying to be an adult in a relationship you seriously don't need to lie or front and try to put on this big picture or pseud like your something that your not.

to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.

Unforgiven, I think, is the best Western ever.

You can make all the birth plans in the world, but at the end of the day - go with the flow.

He was in a slow-motion mood-one of my favorites, though it meant i'd be driven crazy before we were done.