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I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women.

We still have to create things for African American women. Just like Tyler Perry is doing it, we can't wait for things to happen; you have to go and make and create roles and go to people.

I'm not interested in making all-black films - I come from a very diverse culture; I want to work with every type of person. I work a lot with women executives because they seem to be a lot more open minded about that and a lot more progressive in that way.

There are hundreds of stories I've heard from black women from my generation, generations before me, and the next, that have never been given an opportunity to fulfill their dreams.

I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.

I think that black people making art, women making art, and certainly black women making art is a disruptive endeavor - and it's one that I enjoy extremely.

We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.