As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world, and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.

I think, irrespective of your race, everybody has moments in life where they don't fit in, or where they try to puzzle through who they really are or to find the courage of their convictions.

But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it shouldn’t come at the expense of your self-worth.

Different fragrances promote different emotions, and I find that fragrance gets me in the frame of mind for that person.

I'm a multi-faceted human being.

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

I think all characters that we play are facets of ourselves.

What is the purpose of wealth if it cannot serve an ideal that enhances humanity and betters the lives of the people, even if that means those we have never met before in our lives?

In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

Philosophy may be blind without science, but science can lack vision without philosophy.

Communication is the key and saying your words with kindness is the way to go.

Back then everyone was saying: "We're going to die, we're going to die. By the year 2000, there won't be any Belarussians left.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

We always get bored with those whom we bore.

The less I spent on myself and the more I gave to others, the fuller of happiness and blessing did my soul become.

Not everybody has time to pay attention fully, or not everybody has the time to read a book. Some people refuse to read books, and I'm just an unread book. Open me!

No person writes to win awards.