When I got out of acting school I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots ' and for society not me it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion and I was not.

At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at the same time in the same hotel.

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.

I would argue that we have a generation of young people particularly minorities who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society.

We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.

I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.

American society is a sort of flat fresh-water pond which absorbs silently without reaction anything which is thrown into it.

At the same we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

The devastating punch we took on September 11th still reverberates throughout American society.