I think I have something unique that I'd like to share.
I pray with my whole soul that the divide-and-conquerers among us will not triumph over us. We need each other in this world so desperately.
One reason I didn't trust my writing for so long was that I always considered myself a serious dramatic actor. But people would always laugh when I shared my writing with them. It took my husband to help me see that I really am part humorist.
My stepmother wanted to be an actress.
My experience for myself as a performer is not one of high expectations.
Oh, I'm impressed with Lorraine Hansberry. She was a genius at whose feet I could sit.
I shined shoes; I did windows.
African-Americans have a lot to teach the world.
I respect the fact that a director has studied the text and the road map of work before us, the subtleties, interconnections, underpinnings... His job is to paint the entire picture and knows all the colors that have to be in it.
I remember street corners and pickets and parades. That's what I got teethed on.
You have to learn how to be married. You have to learn to love somebody.
The economics of life is against the family.
'Commitment' is a marvelous word.
I think the poets and musicians, they belong to everybody.
OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.
I don't know who I would be if I weren't this child from Harlem, this woman from Harlem. It's in me so deep.
I'd come from a background in New York of picketing and protesting.
It is so calming, marriage.
You can't be all you are meant to be if you think you are better than others, and you can't be all you are meant to be if you think you are less than others, either.
I think you mustn't tell your body, you mustn't tell your soul, 'I'm going to retire.' You may be changing your life emphasis, but there's still things that you have in mind to do that now seems the right time to do.
