I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress.

I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?

I feel most sexy when I'm in love. My stomach flips. I get butterflies.

If we don't want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET, and the BET Awards and the Image Awards, where you're only awarded if you're black.

Take pride in your uniqueness.You are powerful individual.

And besides, it drives the dragon crazy when you sing about his downfall even though you are bleeding

If one wanted to stigmaitise, that's how one would do it - lots and lots of people saying "we're severing our ties".

Every episode of 'True Blood' is like shooting a low budget feature.

We are the new "barbarians", forged in iron hardness in the fires of their hate and persecution. All over the world, we wait to pounce.

A character, their ability or inability to laugh at themselves should always be a very, very conscious choice. It's a very big key to the nature of a human being.

Chaos and love when hand in hand and oh, the glorious grace of the world because of it.

Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.

The reason to have more racial diversity on any team is because it's helpful to have different perspectives on any issue. And I also believe that. It's easier said than done, unfortunately.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has, as poverty of what it has not.