A creative person has to #‎ create .

I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song.

I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.

When you have faith in something, it’s your reason to be alive and to fight for it.

We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.

You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.

I wasn't concerned about the hardships because I always felt I was doing what I had to do, what I wanted to do and what I was destined to do.

In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.

My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life.

A lot of a movie is locations, frankly.

There is a peace deep within myself from knowing that all things are held within and sustained by the love of God.

I don't believe in coincidence. I just think that all things work together for good.

To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' s**t and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty and still doing it.

I live by the ten percent rule. Save one, you save a thousand.

It's difficult to protect something if it doesn't have a price.

Do you know how you make someone into a Dalek? Subtract Love, add Anger.

There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.