I can understand what the character requires and how to read a particular piece of characterization to make the character work.
I get a lot of independent films from people who are starting out.
I still have to audition for most things.
I think a lot of times you are cast because of a certain thing or a certain quality.
I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own.
Punks, and raging queens, those are the words used that celebrates them. I think the word they don't like is sissy.
The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.
The message has become clearer to the nation about AIDS. People used to think they could catch it all kinds of ways, but we now know that it is absolutely passed through bodily fluids.
In 2005 she was nominated at the Image Awards for [tab] Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for the movie Woman Thou Art Loosed.
In 2000 at the Black Reel Awards she was nominated for Network/Cable - Best Supporting Actress for Funny Valentine.
In 1971 she graduated with a BA from the University of Houston.
Starred in The Lifetime Original Movie The Fantasia Barrino Story: Life is Not a Fairy Tale as Fantasia's Grandmother Addie Collins.