If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.

I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are- not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within- that you can begin …

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

Madonna's got one big choice. Take a couple of years off and become a human being.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I'd like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified me in my films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don't h…