I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton.

If your dream only includes you, it's too small.

Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

When you're in your lane, there's no traffic.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

I've passed along some advice that Oprah [Winfrey] gave to me: When something bad is happening, it's not happening to you; it's happening for you.

Stop asking, start doing.

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

Courage is important but it shouldn’t be used in making impulsive decisions or taking uncalculated actions.

Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective.

Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer.

That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him.

You cannot make a difference unless you're different.

Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same.

If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident.

The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.

In order to travel far you have to be detached.

Expand your inner circle to include those who can challenge your thinking and escalate you to unreached heights of success.