A black woman making art is a disruptive act. Every story that I tell as a woman is a political act, even if I want to tell a 'silly love story.' The fact it exists through my gaze is radical.

If your dream only includes you, it's too small.

Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

When you're in your lane, there's no traffic.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

I've passed along some advice that Oprah [Winfrey] gave to me: When something bad is happening, it's not happening to you; it's happening for you.

Stop asking, start doing.

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

It’s not so much where I want you, Sophie, as it is how. Nothing tastes quite like a woman, and no woman tastes like you. - Marc Hunter

this is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others,

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

I've decided to retire from top class racing. It has been an incredible experience and has provided with me some unforgettable moments.

We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

When you find yourself talking about less and less and forgetting the love that you bring, never forget there are things you can replace but others you can not.

If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.

In my kids school, the married family is an anomaly which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.

Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.

If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.