War stories, westerns, spy stories are all accepted as respectable because they are read by men. It is only women's light reading which is derided.

If you want to talk about a subject that is important to women, romantic fiction is the place to talk about it because that's where your audience is.

A romantic novel is an adult fairy story, repeating the recurring symbols and images which can explain life to a woman and satisfy a powerful need within her. The need to love and be loved is vital to all human beings, but especially to women.

I think love is always going to be the most important subject for women.

If a woman is financially independent, she can definitely make a bigger contribution in making big decisions and contribute much more. If a woman is financially independent, she can pursue her interests, too.

As a black person on the outside, because there's so much black art and so much of black people's work circulating, so many people imitating what black people do, you would think that there'd be more black people on the business side. It didn't cross my mind that every label head, for the most part, is a white guy.

I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.

I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.