I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.

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.

You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard.

Seemingly suicidal, it's not. I never wanted to live. I wanted to be happy. Living was always accidental.

A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness

Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.

...we think so much about the present and so little about eternity that we turn eternity into nothing and nothing into eternity.

I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, As sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.

I do think about The Flash often. I think that could be a really fun role to play at some point. That's right up my alley. I just want somebody to believe in me that I could be a Superhero.