More people have seen 13th on Netflix than have seen all my films put together between the Sundance winners and Selma, and the whole international distribution of film.

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.

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

If God is going to write your loves story, He's going to first need your pen.

One paid for one's knowledge with one's skin.

The beginning of Eternity, The end of time and space, The beginning of every end, And the end of every place. What am I?

Somehow We all are Burning Ourselves as We Constantly Thinking About Our Past.

I’m bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden.

We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.

Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket

The entire customer or user experience - from raising awareness, to buying a product / taking action, to getting customer support - is going digital.

Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.

The progress of the Way seems retreating.