"Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They`re what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm." "The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years." - on her commitment to choose only positive images

"One lady told me that before she saw `Sounder`, she didn`t believe black people could love each other, have deep relationships in the same way as white people."