And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

- Debra Wilson

Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up.

- Debra Wilson

My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.

- Debra Wilson

When I was five years old I knew I wanted to act.

- Debra Wilson

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

- Debra Wilson

So many comics have such low self-esteem.

- Debra Wilson

I'm not the classic type - fair skin, very beautiful women of a classic type, I'm talking about now.

- Debra Wilson

Watched Star Wars in 77 and that's when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it.

- Debra Wilson

I got an early education from television.

- Debra Wilson