I just couldn't have her go anyplace else.

I was speechless when I heard her name. We called everybody.

There has been a transformation of values to a too-sanitized, corporate convenience mode that markets a 'Dream' motif. There is a tide that extols — and extolled — the wisdom of Dr. Martin Luther King in a way that says that we are moving onward and upward. There is this tone of triumph that we have seen President Bush use when talking about the war in Iraq.

I enjoy cooking, and people love what I cook.

When I left the house to become an actress, my mother literally flung her body across the door and said, 'You're killing me!' It was a very strict household. That can be okay, but there was also no nourishment, either.

Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we see it in Asia.