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

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.

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

What if I've died a long time ago and come here? he wondered. What if the defining characteristic of hell is that you're locked in an endless, blind battle to reform it?

Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.

Everyone is the creator of their own perceived illusion of reality.

My only goal is to make the crew laugh, basically. It's the only litmus I have to know, is this good or not?

No one predicts the future. No one tries to.

Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.

I think YouTube has destroyed the genre barrier. People can be into Justin Bieber and Eminem at the same time. It's a good thing.

Where else but in America could a schoolteacher from Kansas City end up the governor of her adopted state?

The entire world has one goal, and that is the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, we want to achieve that peaceably, but all options are on the table.

Can not the One who gives life to dead land, give life to dead hearts?