Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.

They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.

Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.

When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.

You can't be hesitant about who you are.

Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.

I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.

I don't have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn't love me has to say about me.

All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.

I never wanted but your heart--that gone, you have nothing more to give.

Trying to think the unthinkable, is doing something unnatural to thought.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

One man's cult is another man's religion.

A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

Competing loves are detected in the gap between saying and doing.

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

I thought that words and books and pens were more powerful than guns.

And new, too. Remade. Ready to move again. Listening was the start, she decided. Doing was the next step.

I don't know what's wrong with me. It's like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart.