"I've been very lucky enough to do all kinds of movies. All the movies that I've done have been very different, and all the characters I've done have been very different. I feel very lucky to have been able to do the movies that I've done."

"It's just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time."

"That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me."

"When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters."

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something."

"Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will."

"I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish."

"Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart."