Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it's filet mignon.

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.

The fate of the world depends on the triumph of the good people!

Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.

I believe that alternative healing methods are much more than just temporary or half measures.

I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.

Naturally, I’ve always been mad about clothes. You don’t get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute.

There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.

If Plutarch is the essayist I want to believe he is, he would want us all to sit in his chair.

All of us have times when we think we are ugly,but all.of us have a unique beauty others do not have.

I was a very outgoing, gregarious, full-of-energy kid.

No religion but blasphemes a little.