Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Live in love to live in abundance.

Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar Where are you now? Who lies beneath your spell? Whom do you lead on Rapture's roadway far Before you agonize them in farewell?

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters.

I don't know if I'm the best. There are better shooters, better defenders, but there aren't too many female who play the game like I do.

It's only game. Why you have to be mad?

Youth instinctively understand the present environment - the electric drama. It lives mythically and in depth.

Almost everything I learned about being an actor came from those early years at the Actor's Studio.

Whatever your path is, that's your path.

The quality of your life is the quality of where you live emotionally