The only thing I've ever wanted to do in my entire life is to be on Broadway.

I was a little girl with a pot belly and Afro puffs, hyperactive and overdramatic, and I found the theater and I found my home.

I want to thank all the shoulders of the strong and brave and courageous women that I am standing on.

Pedigree matters: if you break your shoulder trying to open a door, it's much harder to play the game once you get in the room.

...and if you hear something you know, please sing along. No wait - I take that back - you can't sing along - this is about me now - this is my show.

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

Whatever is the scariest is almost always what I end up choosing.

Theater doesn't bring money in general. That's not why you do it. If you go into theater for money then you've really gone into the wrong business.

Music was all over my house, and all over literally my genetic house, and my house in the literal sense. So I kind of couldn't avoid it.

I think for a lot of people that are in performing arts, it's easy to fall into the trap of starting to confuse what's real life and what's not, because to your body it's all real.

It's easy to spend - especially in this day and age - to spend your time not being in the present. It's very easy to be way ahead. What's tomorrow and the day after that?

With a little care for each other in the business world, we create a better one. A world in which human beings look after their fellow humans.

Humans - a renewable resource.

O let us live in joy, in love among those who hate! Among men who hate, let us live in love.

New Beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new chances come your way.

I like black, because for me it is a very happy color.

Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.

In the Trump administration we will end decades of policies that enrich special interests and foreign countries at our expense.

Goods move in response to price differences from points of low to points of higher price, the movement tending to obliterate the price difference and come to rest.

Fun is just another word for learning.

When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.