I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in the morning.

Pain doesnt have a face and pain doesnt have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal.

Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.

Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.

I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.

I'm not married, nor do I want to be. I'm the loving kind but not the marrying kind, though I am romantic.

Tina nods sagely and says yes and then something in Plautdietsch, probably something like heck yeah do we ever know what sad is. Sadness is what holds our bones in place.

That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.

Then you shouldn’t be worried about him being with me. You can have him back when I’m done with him.

Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit.

Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

I don't know the extent to which they do business [ in Wells Fargo]. I just want to see how this thing continues to unfold and if they have a legitimately major change in their culture.

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

Everybody has their own way of tapping into their realness.

Dhoni is the best captain India ever had

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.