I have a lot of friends who are in mixed race relationships who are gay. But I think that the reason it bothers people is because there is not enough…

- Anika Noni Rose

I think personal power is having the availability to say, 'No' to something, whatever that may be.

- Anika Noni Rose

The seventies was a time when a lot of people didn't tell their children they were adopted.

- Anika Noni Rose

I think the New York theater audience is very savvy. Sometimes you get newbies who think they're going to be watching Smash onstage, and sometimes yo…

- Anika Noni Rose

I think what's happening in Hollywood is a direct reflection of what's happening in the world right now.

- Anika Noni Rose

I feel like if you are going to come to somebody who you don't even know on a worldwide platform, then your idiocy needs to be seen worldwide so it c…

- Anika Noni Rose

Regardless of whether or not the producers think that there are five other people waiting for the job, the one that is there needs to be treated as i…

- Anika Noni Rose

Somebody came and directed a show at my high school. I approached it with sort of the sensibility - "Oh, I know that music. I'm going to go audition.…

- Anika Noni Rose

Athletes and actors do really crazy things and we do them under weird circumstances because we love what we do and because we take things in an extre…

- Anika Noni Rose