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" Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure. "
Race
Black
Women
" Every role is a potential lover. I ask: Are they someone I want to wake up to in the morning and go to bed with at night? Do they question my assumptions about life? Consume me to distraction? Make my cry, then clown to make me laugh again? If I say yes, then it's all I need. "
Me
Life
Laugh
" I don't think that a vote for Barack Obama is a symbolic thing. I think it's much more than that. It's not just a black man. It's not just a feel-good vote. It's the idea of electing someone who really does want to make a difference. "
Think
Man
Make A Difference
" I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in the morning. "
Love
Safety
Morning
" I'm not married, nor do I want to be. I'm the loving kind but not the marrying kind, though I am romantic. "
I Am
Kind
Loving
" I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect. "
Think
Message
Film
" I think that when a film does its job, it poses questions rather than gives answers. It should act as a frustrating counselor who, at your bidding for advice, says, 'What do you think?' I think that's some of what the culture critic Greg Tate meant by art leaving a 'metaphysical stain.' "
Art
Culture
Advice
" Pain doesn't have a face and pain doesn't have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal. "
Certain
Way
Universal
" Sitcoms are incredibly limiting. When you do a sitcom and it becomes a signature part for you, it's harder to do something else; but if you do a drama, you can get lost in it and have a role to do other things. "
Things
Get
You
" The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't think it's a problem that's specific to black women. I think it's a problem that's specific to movie-making in America. "
Women
Me
Think
" Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption. "
Air
Loved
Lost
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