"There are a lot of movies out there that I would hate to be paid to do, some real demeaning, real woman-denigrating stuff. It is up to women to change their roles. They are going to have to write the stuff and do it. And they will." (quoted from interview featured in book "I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America" by Brian Lanker, New York: Stuart, Tabori & Chang, 1989)