I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.
I could fully express myself in lacrosse.
I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.
There was no publicity. You had to like it. There was no pressure, just great competition. The attitude of the coaches and players was exceptional.
I loved the game. We played because we loved it.
The need to be cared for is the base of everything. In the penitentiaries, you won't hear gangbangers and criminals say, 'No, I don't want to be cared for by nobody. ' When you care about them, they'll open up to you.
I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And a movie doesn't have to be about race just because there's a Negro in it.
I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman.
Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.
Thicken your religion a little. It is evaporating altogether by being subtilized.
Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.