Cree Summer
Cree Summer

When I'm working with strangers, I can get a little timid or scared. With friends, I'm willing to' try anything, because there's a lot of trust involved.

Cree Summer
Cree Summer

I've always been proud to be different, I've always stood out like a sore thumb and I always have not given a damn.

Cree Summer
Cree Summer

My father said, 'Let's raise our child in a paradise instead of a parking lot,' and that's what they did.

Cree Summer
Cree Summer

Usually cartoon characters stay a certain age; that's part of their appeal. Usually they don't grow up.

Cree Summer
Cree Summer

I like to look at the skyline and the moon.

Cree Summer
Cree Summer

I wanted to be in a rock band. That's all I ever wanted to do.

Cree Summer
Cree Summer

I was reading 'The Prophet' on my own when I was 10 years old.

Cree Summer
Cree Summer

I was in the 4th grade, and one day I didn't want to be in class. My father had just gotten a new Harley-Davidson, and he came and took me out of class. He said it was too beautiful to be indoors, so we stayed out all day.

Cree Summer
Cree Summer

My generation spends too much time in the mirror and not enough looking inside ourselves.

Cree Summer
Cree Summer

When I was 19 my friends dared me to come to Los Angeles and see if I could make it down here.

Cree Summer
Cree Summer

With acting it was never a real passion or inspiration of mine.

Cree Summer
Cree Summer

Being in the body of an African-American woman, I prefer animation. I get to be everybody. I don't have to always be the white girl's best friend. I can be the princess. I can make an inanimate object come to life. I can be a little boy. I can be anything.

Cree Summer
Cree Summer

I'm appreciating the little bitty things that make me happy.

Cree Summer
Cree Summer

People say to me, 'Ooh, L.A. is so plastic.' Sure, it's mountains to the right, oceans to the left and pretense in the middle, but who... has to hang out in the middle?

Cree Summer
Cree Summer

I was raised on an Indian reservation, and I didn't see a television set till I was 10, so it's not a part of my life.

Cree Summer
Cree Summer

The Indians are a civilization wrought with culture and a beautiful, deep spirituality.

Cree Summer
Cree Summer

I didn't know about competition until I got to school. I didn't know how degrading it was to be graded until I got to school.

Cree Summer
Cree Summer

I don't know a single black girl who's carefree because it ain't easy being a girl of color, period. God, I wish we were carefree.

Cree Summer
Cree Summer

A lot of political things would have to dramatically change in this planet for a woman of color to be carefree.

Cree Summer
Cree Summer

If anybody knows how to be friends, it's black women. We have been enslaved and had to care for each other and each other's babies and pick each other up in so many powerful ways. We know to take care of each other, we know how to be friends.