Each role has its own different challenges.

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.

Welcome to Paris, Anna. I'm glad you've come.

Knowledge is strength.

In army they say "Shoot to Kill" and in Sales "Pitch to Sell".

Coward people are afraid of failure & Failure is afraid of brave people

Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.

Nonsense, seems to sum up everything.

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

When it came time for college, I told my parents I was going to major in acting. And they were so removed from anything to do with show business - my dad built our house and my mom grew our food.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

I might say this, that the problem of the, the solution for the Afro-American is two-fold - long-range and short-range.