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

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.

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.

Because my mom always told me that I could. From a very early age, I felt comfortable leading.

The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.

Only lies offend me, never honest counsel.

A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

Days I kept busy with fractured angels' client masquerades.

Not every move you make has to be a great leap

You cannot powder away what botox can fix. My name is Tamar, and I am for plastic surgery.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.