I did want to mark the fact that it was the first African-American to win the Lead Actress category.I thought it was so progressive.

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.

...yet he [Levon] somehow sings with the wounded humanity of a man without a tribe, a man who has known both love and grief and understands that one is the price of the other.

Miracle is the ability God has given you.

People tell me that I should become a politician but I say no I want to do something good for the nation.

Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.

In California virtually everyone has had their teeth whitened. If they all smiled at once, they would give us a headache.

Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.

So why don't we make ourselves the last generation on earth? If we would all agree to have ourselves sterilized then no sacrifices would be required - we could party our way into extinction!

Obama's capitalism is a capitalism of connections.

Small towns harbor small imaginations.

I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct.