Some men are afraid of women who challenge them and demand respect and answers. That's who I am and will always be.

I learned from my mistakes, I was able to accept the things that were my fault and to be able to grow from that. You have to be able to see growth from your experiences and I've done that.

It is much easier to fight through this thing called life with someone, as opposed to fighting alone. I absolutely want to be a wife and to come home to somebody who I know adores me.

I know how to play comedy when it's needed. So even when it's really not there, my facial expressions are really great. I have a lot of facial expressions in my face, you know.

I'm a talkative person because I like to get to know a person and I like you to get to know me.

I have very few friends. I'm an associate of everybody and friend of none.

I'm not into younger men. A couple of years younger, maybe, but I'm not a cougar. I'm not a panther either.

Growing up, I stayed in a child's place. My father was murdered when I was 20. I was a model and never had a real job and my parents took care of me.

I intimidate a lot of men, because I've done a lot. I'm established. I'm successful.

When I was younger, I thought LisaRaye sounded so country, but I've come to really appreciate my family-given name. I was named after my father, David Ray McCoy, and I'm totally a daddy's girl.

As an actress, I have put myself out there as an independent black woman, a single mom, a go-getter, a hustler who isn't afraid to survive.

I am lovable in endless ways. I look myself straight in the eye with love and acceptance.

An ugly jar full of water is worth more than an empty beautiful one in the desert.

It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.

Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one.

We believe PR should be practiced to serve the public interest, to develop mutual understanding between organizations and their publics.

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

Many possible things were impossible before they were possible

Fame made me develop a panic disorder.

I use innocence in my demeanor like a Venus flytrap.