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.

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.

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 want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent

The ability to be intense in whatever you do is a key factor in reclaiming your lost years

I have a theory that you get the right dog, the dog you need, for a particular stage in your life.

It is not the situation. It is your reaction to the situation.

Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.

The National League game is chess; The American League is checkers.

The bitter pinecone may be eaten, The mist on high give nourishment. The whole world takes to go-and-getting; My way alone is difficult.

Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes.

The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces.

With the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around the neck, and we touched.

Nothing happens without a reason.