Halle has such a way with words.

Halle Berry is the subject of a pretty cool NY Times blog feature this week. Inside she talks candidly about her new role in the upcoming film Cloud Atlas, her race, her relationships and raising Nahla away from the paps. We’ve got the best excerpts for you here…

Via NYT T Magazine Blog:

On The Paparazzi:

“They’re outside my house every morning,” she says.“I get it about the celebrity stuff,” she tells me softly, sliding into her seat. “It’s part of my job to recognize that there’s a certain part of my life the public wants to hear about. But it’s not O.K. that they’re doing terrible things to my daughter. One night, after they chased us, it took me two hours just to get her calmed down enough to get to sleep.”

On Her Bad Choices In Men:

“My picker’s broken,” she says with a laugh. “God just wanted to mix up my life. Maybe he was thinking, ‘This girl can’t get everything! I’m going to give her a broken picker.’ ” She says it’s fixed now.

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