I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.

I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.

The public has become my fairy godmother.

If you want to be in Hollywood, and if you want to make big international movies, you have to be able to make movies that don't have anything to do with social status or politics. To limit yourself to just do these little small movies and call it black cinema itself is a mistake to me.

The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

Would most politicians have gone to a meeting with someone advertised as being an agent of the Russian government?