When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love.

Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself.

I've always been a performer. That's just what I know.

I like being in relationship because of the comfort it provides.

I don't have a lot of friends; most of the friends I have, I've had since high school.

For some odd reason, I like a man in sweatsuits. Obviously, you want your man to look good in a suit, but I like when men look comfortable, and the swagger just stands out of that.

I'm the little half-black, half-Jewish girl who was odd and awkward. I try to be myself.

I’ve always been a woman of faith.

I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me.

I do remember being teased by my cousins on my mom's side for not being black enough. And then I'd spend the summer with my dad and be sent to all white summer camps where I was 'that black girl.'

I have a hard time watching myself! Usually I do the work, and then I leave it. So I pretend like I'm not on TV every week.

Okay, well I think the programme is like being screamed at for an hour by a drunk with a strobe-light, but like I said--

Sometimes, we think faster than what we write.

I like black because it is a vacant space.

With languages, you are at home anywhere

I had a really tough time for a few years. My show was gone. My phone wasn't ringing. There wasn't one job offer. And at that point, I thought I knew for sure that I wouldn't work in Hollywood again.

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

France is France and a grand place for Frenchman.

Always maintain hopefulness, especially when the going is hard.

You can run a lot of plays when your X is twice as big as the other guys' O. It makes your X's and O's pretty good.

Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.