I think it`s important to create projects as an actor rather than wait for them. I love being able to take an idea and sell it to a studio.

It was a very vulnerable time going from being insecure about my body and who I am to becoming comfortable with me. I had to tune out what the hell everybody else had to say about who I was. When I was able to do that, I felt free.

I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally. quoted in WOMAN`S WORLD (6-7-05)

Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.

I`d like to have and adopt [children]. I think I`d be a great mom, honestly. I don`t think I`ll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.

I`m pretty much the same but trying to be better every day. I don`t think the success has gone to my head. I don`t think I`m alienating friends or losing friends.

There are times you can`t really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

I am not one to turn down macaroni and cheese, even late at night. I love Italian food. I love pasta...A refrigerator full of water and Gatorade? Honey, that`s just not gonna happen. -Woman`s World, 6-13-06 issue

I really don`t know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn`t build my self-esteem, and it doesn`t help me grow me at all.

"Don’t you want to know what’s real and what’s not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. `The Russians, the Russians, the Russians.` So it’s almost like what’s real and what’s not?”

“I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.”