Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the 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.

To be able to stay beside a beloved one is the special privilege of a friend.

You're on your own little quest, an there's a bit of Frodo Baggins in you, and a bit of Verne's Paganel, and just a tiny drop of Robinson Cursoe, and a smidgeon of Radishchev.

Walk on your own sacred path.

Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8, 000 movies.

Blaming destiny is a poor out for those who don't reach desired destinations.

Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.

It is not the least anxiety that we have so little powder and lead on hand.

The LSD experience usually changes forever the worldview and basic life-orientation of all who experience it

I'm a very safe person, probably to the extreme.