I think that what happens so often on screen is high-stake moments tends to look too pretty. And I just don't think it's honest.

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.

She ate the stars and swallowed the earth, She is the girl with all the power.

Dear God, I must be dead and in hell since you're here.

Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It's really above and beyond American politics.

The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.

Franklin [D. Roosevelt] had a good way of simplifying things. He made people feel that he had a real understanding of things and they felt they had about the same understanding.

I have clearly recorded this: for one can learn good lessons also from what has been tried but clearly has not succeeded, when it is clear why it has not succeeded.

If all were rich, gold would be penniless.

There are no uncriminal crimes.

We will not put our sons in prison for political membership or resisting occupation, because occupation is the reason for the problem.