I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?"

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.

It’s illegal to yell ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater, right?” “It is.” “Well, I’ve whispered ‘Racism’ in a post-racial world.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.

Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen.

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice

GenXers naturally bristle at hierarchies, but thrive on partnerships.

I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning.

Imitation isn't the sincerest form of flattery - it's plagiarism.