Obstacles are there to get around, climb over or scramble through.

The women are the movers and shakers in the community...they initiate things...they keep things going.

The driving thing was for me to get out of the poverty that we lived in... My mother always used to say that we were as good as anyone else.

They (the women) will always do it, it seems to me... I am woman and I am strong.

Money can take you many places, but imagination can take you anywhere.

One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends.

So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.

A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.

Eat a plant-based diet - which act like prebiotic and probiotics in the gut.

They smile in my face, behind my back they talk trash, Mad and stuff because they don't have cash.

This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants.

Chris Farley, I was a huge fan of his growing up. I would love to do something kind of slapstick and funny, maybe where I could change my look even a little bit.

Just because it's all you want, doesn't mean it's all you need.

I think the differences between men and women, it's kind of hard to define what those are and the challenges, what they are. I think there are challenging things for everybody.