Lena Horne

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.