I know that there are a lot of great women that have gone before me, so it's important to acknowledge them.

If your dream only includes you, it's too small.

Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

When you're in your lane, there's no traffic.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

I've passed along some advice that Oprah [Winfrey] gave to me: When something bad is happening, it's not happening to you; it's happening for you.

Stop asking, start doing.

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

Absence of worldly misery - that is called eternal bliss.

I find few more satisfying exhibitions of power and control than deliberately creating desire - only to capriciously deny it...

When you put your hand to the plow you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

I don't want to be an actor, but why not take these opportunities when they come to you? I'm not killing myself auditioning, chasing that dream.

Ministers must read. We are required to read not as a luxury but as a necessity.

In America it is not considered to be mentally ill when a woman advances on her prey in a discotheque setting with hardy cocktails present.

As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

When you guys are sleeping at night, I am out there working.