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

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

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

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.

Knowing the truth is important, but following the truth is much more important.

Better is half a loaf than no bread.

Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.

My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.

Society imposes low expectations of those who have disabilities”

I think I have made just one picture that I really like.

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

There was concern whether SCI FI would want the show back with all the recent changes. But now, the changes have made it feel fresh, like starting over.

Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.

speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.