I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.

I want it to resonate: there's no rule for how to live your life. You can do things your own way.

I do not want to be restricted to a particular image.

Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it.

This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.

The aim is not therefore to liberate some 'essential self' by throwing off the burden of government and the State, but to develop the self in creative and voluntary relations with others.

True spirituality frees us to live joyfully in the present.

The critical issue on the journey with God is not "Am I happy?" but "Am I free?

By the very act of refusing to succumb to the enormous pressure of Western culture around us, we, too, serve as a sign of a free people. We have been called out of a world trying to prove its worth and value by what it does or possesses. We are deeply loved by God for who we are, not for what we do.

True freedom comes when we no longer need to be somebody special in other people's eyes because we know we are loveable and good enough.

Sadly, when we look deep beneath the surface of our lives, most of us are not doing anything fundamentally differently from what our families did. God's intention, however, is that our local churches and parishes are to be places where, slowly but surely, we are re-parented on doing life Christ's way. God intends that his new community of people be the place where we are set free.