Never laughing too loudly in a restaurant no matter how good the joke.
With film acting, and often when the camera comes very close, you just have to think about something and the camera will pick it up.
I'd quite like to do a film but I'd also love to do more theatre. I want to keep challenging myself with good roles. It's harder for women because there aren't as many challenging roles.
I really love clothes, but I think I have a style of my own which is quite eclectic.
Racism, specifically, is the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.
I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself.
I don't really plan. I just see what happens.
Children know you ought to be fair. Especially fifth graders. I love fifth graders. They know that bullying is wrong. They know that you should praise one another, and that differences make a strong community. So sometimes I feel as though I can't wait for the fifth graders to grow up and rule the world.
Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a lot in her life, and her career has spanned over 50 years. To me, that's what you call a legend.
Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics.
Do what others refuse to do.