Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!

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.

When you hear the haunting melody of guilt and shame, drown it out with God's song of forgiveness and love.

Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land.

You will never be saved against your will; God drags nobody to heaven by the ears.

I always remind my kids that hard work pays off. That's how I got to where I am right now because of sacrifice and the work I put into it.

Forget aging. If you're six feet above ground, it's a good day.

Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything.

At whatever age you find the truth, that will be your real birth year! That's why man can be born even at the age of eighty!

It's time for new bands to step up because KISS and Mtley Cre, Aerosmith, The [Rolling] Stones... we're not always gonna be here. Who's gonna replace us? There's no one out there. It's sad.

National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.

We are best friends. Always remember that if you fall, I will pick you up. after I finish laughing.