Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.

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.

There is no one I would rather see the sunrise with than you.

And then his lips were on mine and we were in it, pulling away from the past and rushing fast into the future.

Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.

Do not let go of your right to make your own decisions, because by doing so you are letting go of who you really are.

Mothers tend toward right on most things.

I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started traveling and had a lot of absences.

We have contact with alien cultures.

The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.

Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.

Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction.