“-When I was growing up, Lieutenant Uhura was a major role model for me, a strong black woman on the bridge of a starship…-In a miniskirt, answering the interplanetary telephone?”

“People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up”

“I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out." Parents have to take better control.”

“If I can't serve as a role model, let me serve as a warning.”

“When I'm born I'm black, when I grow up I'm black, when I'm in the sun I'm black, when I'm sick I'm black, when I die I'm black, and you... when you're born you're pink, when you grow up you're white, when you're cold you're blue, when you're sick you're blue, when you die you're green and you dare call me colored”

“I dont want to be a super model. I want to be a role model.”