If you ask us, we think that Ms. Dandridge was before her time. She's very beautiful and talented, and they used her as their prote'ge'. Because she was beautiful on the outside, many thought she was not as intellectual as she was.

We appreciate our black women more now than we did then. Dorothy is well known now as a beautiful actress who could not, at the end of her life, take the pressures of society and the world around her. We're sure that she would not want to be remembered as such. She overcame poverty to wealth and gradually back down, but we will not let her memory go down in our hearts.