Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people.

If your dream only includes you, it's too small.

Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

When you're in your lane, there's no traffic.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

I've passed along some advice that Oprah [Winfrey] gave to me: When something bad is happening, it's not happening to you; it's happening for you.

Stop asking, start doing.

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

I want to reach the top with it all--business, family and faith!

Resilience is built from real hardship and cannot be bought or manufactured.

The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

The job of the leader is to speak to the possibility.

Tesla burns cash. It's not a car company, it's a cult of fanatics who think Elon Musk can do no wrong. But financially, it doesn't work.

My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.

I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.

One cannot build a future based on the description of a criminal past.

Necessity is the author of change.