If you're a boxer, you want to get the ring with a Mike Tyson or Muhammad Ali type. When you're acting, you want to get in with Meryl Streep, and that's what I did.

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.

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death

Whenever you are examining someone else's belongings, you are bound to learn many interesting things about the person of which you were not previously aware.

Harry Potter is dead.

what did wards matter when you could create your own reality just by drawing it?

I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film.

Humor is based on surprise, and surprise is a milder way of saying shock. It's surprise that makes the joke.

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly.

I don't get very involved in the L.A. scene. When you do get invited out, you are expected to be on all the time. It's just wearying.