And thou shalt in thy daughter see, This picture, once, resembled thee.

Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

The good news doesn't make any sense unless you know what the bad news is first, and the bad news goes pretty deep.

Twitter provides a great amount of timely information, but we still need those people to fill out the rest of the story and the context.

Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac Newton had been hit on the head, not by an apple, but by a young lady.

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.

It's hard to get up at 6am when you're wearing silk pyjamas.

Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.

I was so wrinkled I could screw my hats on.

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

War cannot be abolished unless classes are abolished.