The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

I was a little girl with a pot belly and Afro puffs, hyperactive and overdramatic, and I found the theater and I found my home.

I want to thank all the shoulders of the strong and brave and courageous women that I am standing on.

Pedigree matters: if you break your shoulder trying to open a door, it's much harder to play the game once you get in the room.

The only thing I've ever wanted to do in my entire life is to be on Broadway.

...and if you hear something you know, please sing along. No wait - I take that back - you can't sing along - this is about me now - this is my show.

Whatever is the scariest is almost always what I end up choosing.

Theater doesn't bring money in general. That's not why you do it. If you go into theater for money then you've really gone into the wrong business.

Music was all over my house, and all over literally my genetic house, and my house in the literal sense. So I kind of couldn't avoid it.

I think for a lot of people that are in performing arts, it's easy to fall into the trap of starting to confuse what's real life and what's not, because to your body it's all real.

It's easy to spend - especially in this day and age - to spend your time not being in the present. It's very easy to be way ahead. What's tomorrow and the day after that?

A baby is as pure as an angel and as fresh as a blooming flower.

I would look up at the moon and see that it was not the smooth orb we had all believed, but a pitted and scarred world with no air.

The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

We cannot accomplish as much as we think we can in one day and we can accomplish more than we think we can in a year. Isn't that true?

I have always loved you.

You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

So anybody with any bit of intelligence has got to be pissed off because if they see how things are in the world they're not going to be happy with it.

I'm aware of the luck in [BABIP], but at the same time, you can't directly influence it. You can just keep mixing your patterns, executing and locating, That's the human element of this game.

Politics, of course, requires sweat, work, combat, and organization. But these should not be ugly words for and free people.

You know that failure prelude to being the victim of what is criminally wrong.