I haven't seen most of what I've done. I can't even list them. Most television jobs. I haven't seen a lot.

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.

Forgiveness and Blame share an apartment, but not for long, because Blame can’t live with Forgiveness, and Forgiveness can’t live with Blame.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.

No matter how much you tell yourself your over someone, your heart knows the truth

It is mostly with your blood, Gala that I paint my pictures

Read much, but not many works.

Keep your hopes up. Or down. Wherever you want them to be. Just have hope somewhere.

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.