Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer.
I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.