Now, perhaps more than ever, we need more and more examples of healing. We need to learn what it takes to heal.

You have to see through one's faults before you see their need.

Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.

Politically, nowadays, as we know and feel, we are similarly underrepresented and not heard.

I just hope to work with great people, and do things that are challenging for me and that I can be proud of and not have to hide my face about. Those are my guidelines.

The surgeries were the hardest scenes for me because it's literally balancing so many balls in the air, at the same time, and each surgery is different.

It is that rare film [Moonlight] that comes along once in a while that catches the zeitgeist. This movie is that. I certainly have my fingers crossed that it is. Everyone needs to see this movie.

I want to shift my career back to shows like The Knick. I prefer the classic drama structure.

I am also producing and writing a bunch.

[Theater] has always been a big focus. I have been away from it for the past few years. I want to get back to it!

The policies enacted during segregation are still being felt in Birmingham.

What would you choose if you knew you couldn't fail?

Breath, Love, & Lust This is what we live for

I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.

A Black Belt under the Nogueira Brothers is like saying I got a free toy in my happy meal

Multiple characters make it more difficult to showcase each character.

A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.

Time-awareness does indeed watermark my books and my life.

The church should train the Ritz Carlton on how to serve people.

There was no glam squad, whatsoever. There were no dressing rooms. There were no bathrooms. Let's start at our base level. We didn't have toilet paper. We went to the woods to use the bathroom.

What if I left my memory in the future and I have to catch up to it?