"Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm." "The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years." - on her commitment to choose only positive images "One lady told me that before she saw 'Sounder', she didn't believe black people could love each other, have deep relationships in the same way as white people."