Actor is just a strange profession, it really is, that you could be in front of the same people for years, and all of a sudden one thing happens, and it finally clicks.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.

They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.

Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.

When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.

You can't be hesitant about who you are.

Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.

I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.

I don't have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn't love me has to say about me.

All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.

No matter what, make an effort to react positively to each event.

Maxim 5: Close air support and friendly fire should be easier to tell apart.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Art is a reflection on life. Life isn’t something we can cut and fix. It’s always in a state of flux.

If governments would only understand that if people are left alone they'll work out their own salvation.

Advertising shouldn't be like medicine. It should be like candy.

But prices for the opening ceremony and some events' final competition should be a little bit higher.

Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.

I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.