Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".

It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.

God gives everyone a lane and no one can beat you in your lane. Just stay focused on Him and what you are supposed to do. And everything will be alright.

Rather than focus on your critics, focus on the people who are impacted by your work.

Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.

Once you're truly happy with yourself alone, that's when you are safe to find the right person to spend the rest of your life with.

Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.

The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.

You know, people at Wal-Mart are standing there with their uniforms on. I feel like I'm putting on a uniform to do a movie. I don't feel like it's dressing in drag.

A mother’s love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.

Fear is a sprit that really can stop you from living.

Lucus?"She found him on the bed in the master suite, lying with his arms crossed behind his head, glaring at the ceiling as though it had done him wrong in some way.

You cannot want more for people than they want for themselves.

The key to gallows humor is to make the joke, no matter how certain the gallows is.

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

Anyones allowed to dream, I say

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.

The people I work with, the people I photograph, become a kind of family for me.

Sometimes its the crazy people who turn out to be not so crazy.

Meditation and prayer have withstood the test of time. They work today as perfectly as they did for those who first practised and perfected them.

Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.