Do the work. Create the character, don't wing it and don't hope for an award or the Red Carpet. At the end of day the people who stay in the line the longest are the people who are good.

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.

Act with God's compassion, mercy and forgiveness in mind and you will always be right. Act with revenge in your heart and you will always be wrong.

I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

One murder is too many. But it is important that we learn about what has been effective.

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?

To complain about how the media are dominated by liberals, Limbaugh has an hour a day on network television, an hour on cable, and a radio show syndicated by over 600 stations.

Queen Elizabeth, who said, Not now, I'm on the throne. Never got a dinner!

To be born again is to let the past go, and look without condemnation upon the present.