Can I just tell you, I think it's the most beautiful thing about young people today, it gives me so much hope for the future, that they don't really recognize race the way my generation does.

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.

In life, every moment and everything, is miraculous because life itself is a dance of a miracle.

I may not have a world of things, I may not have the biggest wings, What I do have is a heart of love, Because I trust the One above

Time is not waiting for you

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.

Refuse to be average.

My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community.

When it's a pop song, I don't really want to do pop songs, but they exist and sort of come out by accident.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Migration has been politicized before it has been analyzed.

I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.