1. “I’m fighting the label of ‘Black’ actress simply because it’s very limiting in people’s eyes, especially people who are making movies.”
2. “I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything couldn’t do.”
3. “I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.”
4. “Normal is in the eye of the beholder.”
5. “I don’t believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy.”
6. “I use my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.”
7. “Actors have no color. That’s the art form.”
8. “Things happen to you out of luck, and if you get to stick around it’s because you’re talented.”
9. “In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you’ll survive.”
10. “It never occurs to me that there are things I can’t do.”
11. “Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.”
12. “Children are a quality of life.. when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.”
13. “Just call be black, if you want to call me anything.”
14. “The art of acting is to be other than what you are.”
15. “We’re here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.”
16. “I don’t really view communism as a bad thing.”
17. “You’ve got to vote for someone. It’s a shame, but it’s got to be done.”
18. “An actress can only play a woman. I’m an actor, I can play anything.”
19. “That’s the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn’t care what economic bracket you’re in.”
20. “If you don’t look out for others, who will look out for you?”
21. “If you can handle the fact that people are going to be mad at you when you do what you think is right, you’ll be alright.”
22. “I say if you’re worried, vote smart. Vote smart.”
23. “You don’t want to think something might be racist, but it might be because your gut is telling you it is.”
24. “You have to believe in yourself in spite of what other people believe.”
25. “Everything for me is visual. That’s just how my head works.”
26. “I don’t have pet peeves; I have whole kennels of irritation.”
27. “You couldn’t always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.”
28. “We’re born with success. It is only others who point out our failures and what they attribute to us as failure.”
29. “For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.”
30. “Sometimes experience trumps assumption.”
