Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

If your dream only includes you, it's too small.

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

When you're in your lane, there's no traffic.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

I've passed along some advice that Oprah [Winfrey] gave to me: When something bad is happening, it's not happening to you; it's happening for you.

Stop asking, start doing.

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

Because my mom always told me that I could. From a very early age, I felt comfortable leading.

The Maker is mighty in strength.

I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.

...which recall(s) a moment in time when raw excess made them a casual aristocracy, apart from the rest of the world.

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

There is something so biologically implausible that your attitude is going to cure a disease. There's a tremendous arrogance to imagine that your mind is all that powerful.

Treat every person you interact with, with the same sort of attention and respect which you hope they will give to you.

Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader.

I was given a chance and I took it.

I like my body so much more now since having my baby.

A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.