The writer in me can look as far as an African-American woman and stop. Often that writer looks through the African-American woman. Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.

One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

Let heartbreak be alternative to coffe break, five midmorning minutes devoted to emotion.

the truth is not supposed to free you from the truth, just from everything else

One must always be aware, to notice—even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

Sadly, I hate foreigners. And Americans. And animals. And flora, and some fauna. Also the magma that is the very core of this our mother earth. I'm full o' hate!

I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be.

If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping.

The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus.

I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

The Paris attack was highly sophisticated, well-planned, very clever, took months in the making, very much like 9/11. And there is a 9/11-style attack coming to America.

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.

Love's a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.