Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.

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.

I held a precious, beautiful butterfly in my hands but let it get away.

To be a great dreamer you have to keep pushing and pushing through this crowded world.

Only you can allow yourself to be angry.

If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

You can attract only that which you mentally become and feel yourself to be in reality.

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

This is Life, not Heaven you don't have to be perfect

I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with a team.

When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.