I don't want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen..

I don't want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them..

As a filmmaker, I want to be known as a pan-African filmmaker and this is because I think that we have more to gain as Africans than as individual co….

Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows..

A lot of times if you want to get another agent, agents actually make you do monologues in their offices. They still do that! You've got to come up w….

There are lots of good directors I would like to work with; I want to be inspired and challenged by them..

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do..

Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I..

In a certain way, my work had set me up to be against lots of things. If there wasn't some sort of sanction for it in the public world, it might have….

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else..

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician..

I have no intent. I have no reason to live, that's all. When I'm gone, I don't want to be remembered..

The only reason a man doesn't call is that he doesn't want to..

Our child will not be raised in tissue paper! We don't even want her to hear the word princess..

If I'm not moved by what happens at the end of this play, then I've completely failed, and so has the play, and so has our production. And if that's ….

When God takes your straw, it isn’t because he wants you to remain a slave. It’s because he wants you to take another step toward freedom..

My uncertain temper is cooling, as is my sense of racing against time to accomplish the things I want to. I don't have to go anywhere or see anyone I….

As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the unive….

Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day..

I think I'd want to have an affair with a Montgomery but marry a Taggert..

I would rather die then try to live without you”, “May you always love me and want me but never have me”, “May you never love anyone but me”..