My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.

My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.

I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

I thought I would be Sheena of the Jungle as a little girl.

Well who's black and what is a black person?

That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.

It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.

Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she's been, where she is and where she's going.

You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.

There are just certain realities about our world and I just happen to be creative within it.

I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.

Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.

Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.

But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.

I am really blessed and very grateful for it.

This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.

I love the hip-hop nation.

Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.

Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.

I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.

I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves.

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

I really do not care if it is a B-movie or not.

The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.

I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.

I like to do all kinds of films.

Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.

And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

I love science fiction.

Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.

I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.

Today many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.

Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.

I have a project at HBO and one at the Family Channel coming that are being looked at. Aside from that I am not doing much more than playing golf and some skiing.

I didn't tell anybody about my plan because I was convinced my family or friends would stop me. I didn't think much about what would happen afterwards.

You know raising a family in the lifestyle of a professional athlete can be very difficult.

I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

It was an idea we had when Al was in the Senate - to organize and moderate an annual conference that would look at government policy through the lens of the family to help identify ways that the family can be supported and strengthened.

Even though we were all celebrities to a certain extent, we all looked at each other as family.

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.