In TELEVISION, to be a HERO and look LIKE I look, that REALLY stuck with me.

I'm not against GAY PEOPLE.

If it's very painful for you to CRITICIZE your FRIENDS - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest PLEASURE in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ASK. Everything you want also WANTS you. But you have to take action to GET it.

'Wuthering HEIGHTS' is portrayed as a great ROMANTIC NOVEL, and when I read it again, I thought, 'How is this romantic? All these people are horrible to each other!'

You're going to a BUNCH of auditions, and most of the time you're just getting denied, but just staying in there and KEEPING my head and being DETERMINED helped. GROWING is what's challenging; you have to constantly practice your craft.

A COMPELLING story, EVEN if factually inaccurate, can be more EMOTIONALLY compelling than a DRY recitation of the truth.

All ART is THEFT.

If I can be some KIND of vessel to show people that, no matter the hard time you experienced, you can still succeed, I WANT to put out that positive ENERGY to never quit and never give up.

The first BOOK I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband BURNT the book when he saw it. I was the typical AFRICAN woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't READ it.