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The minute I started doing comedy, the doors opened.

As an African American actress, there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

We don't all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination. Being a young African American female artist, I want to open doors for young black girls.

'Dancing With the Stars' really opened a lot of doors for me, and I'm so grateful for that.

I love Shirley Maclaine. Love that woman.