I really wanted to show [in "fences"] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.

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.

Definitions create conditions.

Repentance is words, God forgives the kind.

When you have the courage to follow your talents into the dark unknown places they lead, often God will send angels to light your way.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

Hecate teaches us that the way to the vision that inspires renewal is to be found in moving through the darkness.

Too much down time makes us miss home.

Christmas dresser feeling pleasure

It is easy to be proud & harsh & selfish - so easy. But we have been created for better things.

We are here to influence the world rather than to be influenced by the world.

The problem is, when you're making an animated movie, the studio has an illusion in their minds - and it's really not true - that because it's a drawing, it can be changed at any time.