40 Quotes by Cree Summer

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.

My imagination works well because I didn't have a boob tube for a baby-sitter.

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.

I slept in closets and on floors for a long time.

When I was 19 my friends dared me to come to Los Angeles and see if I could make it down here.

With acting it was never a real passion or inspiration of mine.

My journey is not to be a star but to become as aware a person as possible.

I didn't know about competition until I got to school. I didn't know how degrading it was to be graded until I got to school.

We need our HBCUs. The youth need our HBCUs. The elders need our HBCUs.