Everyone has the impulse to be elite.

When you expect good, it's available constantly, and it makes itself a reality in your life.

When black women stick together, we are the most powerful force in the universe.

I am not getting any younger and am taking a new approach to life.

Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.

Once our storyline gets under way, I just hope people don't throw cabbages at me in the market.

You very seldom see a picture where you watch the process of falling in love.

Does my character hate Bree? Well, let's just put it this way. Bree hasn't seen the last of me. I gave that drunk gal a ride home a few episodes ago and she turned on me!

I rather go to see a good play than be in one.

I have always done what I wanted to do.

People live a lot freer in their body and their voices and their moves than people act onscreen.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

The saying goes that for a wound caused by dog bite to heal you have to eat that same dog, and I did scoop up a mouthful for myself

I see humans but no humanity.

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.

Every choice you make supersedes and overrides every other choice you make.

We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!

John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you.

Relations between States, as between individuals, must be regulated not by armed force, but in accordance with...truth, justice and vigorous and sincere co-operation.

Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door.

There is a terrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things.