I just hope this [Emmy] is now a part of the status quo that women of color are included in the narratives that continue to write lead roles for us.

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.

Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn't seem like an enormous amount but it's unlike what we would have expected twenty years ago.

I could be irksome when I put my left ventricle into it.

The gods my protectors. [Lat., Di me tuentur.]

Clint Eastwood expects you to know what you're doing. He's going to take two giant steps back and let you do it. I have such appreciation for that part of him.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

Make sure your message is clear, yet that you are faithful to its complexity.

Never find delight in another's misfortune.

The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion.