There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.

Especially while television I think is going through some growing pains or is in need of - I think current comedy is a bit, uh, not happening, you know?

Comedy is much more challenging, because you have to have the same level of belief but you have to make people laugh, and that's definitely a challenge.

There is such a thing as fate, but it only takes you so far. Then its up to you to make it happen.

And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.

I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal.

In comedy, something may be more absurd, but you have to believe just as much as you do when you're doing drama.

AIDS is a state of mind, not a disease.

I'm not some big party chick, so it's not like I have to keep up my big social life.

And I'm so excited to remind people and even gain new fans who find out about Dharma - a new generation who could find out about Dharma and enjoy her and all the characters on the show.

I just think it's fun to remind people that good television has exited and it can exist again and just to give them pleasure and enjoy it and make them laugh.

Sometimes you just have to find the majesty in yourself and other things to truly appreciate life.

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

What happens to Black Folks today, happens to White Folks tomorrow.

Getting the role like this is such awonderful opportunity... I remember looking in the mirror and going 'I'm superman'.

If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.

Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.

No matter what you got, the blues is there

I do, have done and always will believe that I am very capable of performing and thriving at any level of the sport.

If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.