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• When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and…
• I saw that I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. So I made a choice to use my…
• I don't condemn anyone for making their choices. If someone chooses those roles, fine. But not for me. When someone stops me…
• When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know…
• Ali... we should have gone to see that movie. Malcolm X was another one
• We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?
• I am not a quitter. I will fight until I drop. It is just a matter of having some faith in the…
• The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would…
• You never know what motivates you.
• I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards.…
• I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men…
• Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch, what make you go…

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