The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.

It's refreshing for me to try something that's different and also to expose audiences who want to see something that's funny. The Vagina Monologues only come around once a year so now we have something else to offer to those people who want to see stuff like that.

I used to go to raves, but I was never into the whistles and white gloves.

You'll never prove you're too good for a job by not doing your best

Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.