If anybody knows how to be friends, it's black women. We have been enslaved and had to care for each other and each other's babies and pick each other up in so many powerful ways. We know to take care of each other, we know how to be friends.
When I'm working with strangers, I can get a little timid or scared. With friends, I'm willing to' try anything, because there's a lot of trust involved.
I'm just inspired by music.
I wanted to be in a rock band. That's all I ever wanted to do.
Art is a gift and if nobody hears it, that doesn't make it any less of a gift.
I'm appreciating the little bitty things that make me happy.
I want to continue acting as long as I feel right about it.
It it weren't for HBCUs, 'A Different World' wouldn't exist.
People say to me, 'Ooh, L.A. is so plastic.' Sure, it's mountains to the right, oceans to the left and pretense in the middle, but who... has to hang out in the middle?
A lot of political things would have to dramatically change in this planet for a woman of color to be carefree.
Usually cartoon characters stay a certain age; that's part of their appeal. Usually they don't grow up.
I was raised on an Indian reservation, and I didn't see a television set till I was 10, so it's not a part of my life.
We need our HBCUs. The youth need our HBCUs. The elders need our HBCUs.
I was never plunked in front of an idiot box because my parents had other things to do.
My animation work is a major source of pride for me.
I don't know a single black girl who's carefree because it ain't easy being a girl of color, period. God, I wish we were carefree.
I guess when you come from a supportive family they always expect the best of you.
I was in the 4th grade, and one day I didn't want to be in class. My father had just gotten a new Harley-Davidson, and he came and took me out of class. He said it was too beautiful to be indoors, so we stayed out all day.
With acting it was never a real passion or inspiration of mine.
I've been singing since I was young.
I know what it's like to have not and I know what it's like to have. I think I'm conscious of what I get and grateful.
When you hang out with yourself, you learn to keep yourself in check.
I slept in closets and on floors for a long time.
I was reading 'The Prophet' on my own when I was 10 years old.
I grew up in a house made out of mud.
My generation spends too much time in the mirror and not enough looking inside ourselves.
I know to shut up when I don't know what I'm talking about.
When I was 19 my friends dared me to come to Los Angeles and see if I could make it down here.
I like to look at the skyline and the moon.
Cree Summer Francks is an American-Canadian actress and singer.
