Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.

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.

Ah, but I was so much older thenI’m younger than that now

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

At what point do they believe what's been branded on their skin instead of just knowing who they are on the inside.

The ecstasy of seeing her versus the agony of losing her, a million births and a million deaths.

In a movie, that's the only time when you're allowed these kind of fantasies to be lived. Being able to look so cool and be able to fight five bad guys and take them down. When can you do that?

The End is included among goods of the soul, and not among external goods.

There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

You can definitely aid the message that you want to send to people by what scent you're wearing.

Better be with the dead, Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy.

You know you're getting older when they're making TV shows, sequels or plays for things that you did. It's very flattering and very humbling, indeed.