We Have To Have Films About Action

Coming From The '50s, Things Were Very Violent. We Were Still Being Lynched. If I Drove Down Through The South With My Mother, I Might Not Make It Through One State Without Being Bullied Or Harassed. I Feel Like Unless You've Been Black For A Week, You Don't Know.

I Consider Myself Conscious Of How Women Are Treated, And Sometimes I Can Be A Feminist. Sometimes I'm A Little Republican, Sometimes I'm A Little Democrat. Sometimes I'm Angry, Sometimes I'm Not Angry. I'm Not A Total Feminist, But I Believe In Rights For Females. I Believe That If We Have To Pay 100 Percent For Our College Tuition, And Then We Get Into The Workplace And We're Only Given 70 Percent Of Our Counterparts' Salaries, Then We Shouldn't Have To Pay But 70 Percent Of Our College Tuition. Maybe That'll Stop The Bullshit.

I Never Went In Thinking, "you're An African-american Woman, So You're Never Going To Win." I Was Just In Career Doing Beauty Pageants For The Experience, And To Show My Brains And Talent And Help Break Stereotypes. It Wasn't Like, "oh, I'll Become A Star. I'm Beautiful." I Never Thought I Was Pretty. I Couldn't Even Put On Eyelashes Or Makeup. When You Come From An Environment That's Military, And They Don't Stress That Topic Of Aesthetics Or Beauty Pageants And Makeup, There Are A Lot Of Things You Just Don't Have That City Girls Have.

I Want To Direct And Work With The Youngins And The Fabulous Actors Of Today.

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