I'm going to quit writing.

Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.

A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.

I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.

I am the me I choose to be.

You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.

I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

False judges are held up in the world’s admiration and I alone know the true ones.

Whoever said diamonds were a girl's best friend sure hasn't read a good book.

I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.

We might be the holographic image of a two-dimensional structure.

The middle class in America has been devastated.

I'm not a great writer.

I like to use the term alchemy, which is the soul of the world, or those of Jung's collective unconscious. You connect with a space where everything is.

One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.

I never write with particular actors in mind.