I always say African American history is the quintessential American story. It's about perseverance and resilience - something everyone can relate to.

I derive a tremendous amount of pride in developing places that everyday people can experience. I like to create beauty in everyday lives.

African Americans were responsible for creating a lot of this beautiful and elaborate ironwork; we weren't just working in the cotton fields.

One of the ways to get the information or knowledge to is by reading!

If you want to be happy, love. If you want to be happier, love some more.

People like us are dead to society unless we’re pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them.

He who climbs above the cares of this world, and turns his face to his God, has found the sunny side of life.

Let's face it. Chocolate is the world's most well-loved food.

Most people like to live in illusions.

I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting - to non-objective creation.

My own success was attended by quite a few failures along the way. But I refused to make the biggest mistake of all: worrying too much about making mistakes.

Reason is afraid of defeat, But intuition enjoys challenges

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.