That's why there's so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.

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.

It's up to you to make your own destiny and not up to destiny to make you

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours, ' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.

Whoever designed this city built it to complement the setting sun as perfectly as the stars complement the night.

The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.

Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.

I believe in innocence until there's proof of guilt and all that.

My forms are geometric, but they don't interact in a geometric sense. They're just forms that exist everywhere, even if you don't see them.

The best way to spell victory? K-I-L-L.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

Well take care of the counting.