When I was younger, I really struggled with confidence.

Never let anyone silence your voice.

As an artist, you want to stretch. That's the only way you're going to grow. If I stay inside my comfort zone, do roles that I've done before, then I'm never going to get better as an actress.

One of the most tragic things about slavery was the mental enslavement, the way they made us believe that we were worth nothing; and that's what she's fighting against.

Sometimes you have to do wrong to do right.

Right before The Civil War, only 8% of white people owned slaves. Some plantations would have hundreds and hundreds of slaves, but the vast majority of whites didn't have any.

The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling.

If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.

We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.

Love was the bedrock of Jesus' life, the very reason He came to seek and save the lost.

The ultimate high: A man's abilities equaling his opinion of'em.

First ask why, and decide whether something is worth doing. Only after that should you set about doing it as well as you can.

I will take my leave of you, but I will remember you always because you are the ones who encouraged me and lifted me up high. I will remember you forever, forever, even in the afterlife.

This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter.