I'm A Big Fan Of Period Pieces,

I Feel That Sometimes, Holding Yourself As Black, Saying That Is Your Sole Identity, Can Sometimes Stand In Your Way Of Being A Member Of The Humanity Of Man, Being A Member Of The Family Of The Divine.

We All Do Things At Certain Points That Are Contradictory. Some Things, It's A Smaller Contradiction, And Other Things It's Larger.

When I Perform On Stage, You Have To Remember My Performance Or Buy Another Ticket To The Party! In Television And Film, You Can See It Over And Over Again.

As Human Beings, When We're Young, We're Not Jaded. As We Grow Older, We Begin To Take On Ideas Of Our Parents, Family Of Origins And That Changes Us. We Become Less Fluid Sometimes. So For Me, I Look For Roles That Are Uplifting In Many Ways - No Matter What The Race Or Color Of The Role Is. I Want To Go Beyond That And Try To Share What I Think My Gift Is And That Is We All Have This Gift Of Choice. We Just Don't Sometimes Realize We Have That Choice.

Many Times - Especially When I'm Playing An Historical Character - I Want To Be Really On Target With How I Create That Character And Really Nuanced With Who That Human Being Might Be. But I Don't Want To Lose The Likeness Of Me Or The Depth Of My Own Personality. So Meditation And My Spirituality Has Helped Me To Realize That, Yes, I Want To Get Out Of The Way But I Also Want The Ability To Hold On To What The Audience Likes Of What They See Of Me.