I can be busy for three years and you may not even know what I'm busy doing because you only see me in a few scenes here or there, but I've been working my tail off because there's just not a lot.

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.

I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

The mindset, vision, competency, capability, culture and marketing opportunity are all great starting point for business model innovation.

It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write book.

Define loneliness? Yes. It's what we can't do for each other.

Anyone who thinks consumption can expand forever on a finite planet is either insane or an economist.

All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.

Faith means that you have peace even when you dont have all the answers.

I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby, those old movies.

The victor of the war in Iraq is Iran.

When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists.