Pain doesnt have a face and pain doesnt have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal.

Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.

Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.

I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.

I'm not married, nor do I want to be. I'm the loving kind but not the marrying kind, though I am romantic.

I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in the morning.

The paths carved by the divine carpenter into her palms are actually treasure maps showing the way to heaven.

you are a volume in the divine booka mirror to the power that created the universewhatever you want, ask it of yourselfwhatever you're looking for can only be foundinside of you

When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.

And after death something new begins, over which all the powers of the world of death can have no more control.

Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!

Part of the acting gig is when you're let loose some improvs and put stuff into your own words every once in a while. That doesn't get you a writing credit or more money. It just makes it more fun.

Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.

There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.

Whenever a big white man picks up a banjo, my cheeks tighten.

I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love.