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If I Feel Really Ugly Or Unhappy, Sometimes I'll Choose Bright Colors So They'll Make Me Feel Good. Yellows, Pinks, Light Blues And Orange. I Just Want To Feel Good All The Time If I Can. And Colors And Hairstyles And All That Kind Of Helps Out.

My Mother's A Genius. She Just Kept Feeding Me Art On Whatever We Had; Paper Plates, Silver Platter, Didn't Matter. You Know, She Just Kept Feeding It To Me. So We Went To See All Kinds Of Theater. We Would Go To The Art Museum Pretty Much Every Sunday, And I Would Watch Her. She Let Me Know That Art Was Supposed To Touch.

One Of The Things I Love About Africa Is The Amount Of Dignity And Respect And Humility You See All The Time. You Don't Realise How Often You're Disrespected Until You Are Surrounded By Respect.

People Say That They Like The Characters That They Believe That I Am. But, I Don't As Much. I Like The Characters That I Believe That I Am Not. Like My Role On 'law And Order.' That Character Unnerved People. And I Loved Every Second Of It. I Want To Continue Growing As An Actress. There Are Ways That I Can Reach Quicker, Or Deeper, With Acting.

I Was Backstage At The House Of Blues In L.a Where I Was About To Perform, And Stevie Wonder And Prince Turned Up At My Dressing Room Together! Stevie Started Beat Boxing And Prince Started Singing One Of My Songs, All Of A Sudden It Was Like I Was In A Cypher With These Incredible Artists.