When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.

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'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave

Believers may come from different cultures, countries, or customs, but we serve one God who unites us all.

Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will.

Our obedience is God's pleasure when it proves that God is our treasure.

I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.

I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess.

What are the things you are grateful for?? Feel the gratitude.. focus on what you have right now that you are grateful for.

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.