I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated.

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.

What matter most is not the sin. The moment of repentance: go and sin no more.

Audience can live without a movie but a movie cannot live without an audience.

Depression is anger turned inward.

I appreciate the gesture, but you don't have to undress in order to apologize

I think in black.

Life is all about balance. Since I have only one leg, I understand that well.

The older you get, the farther from the camera you need to be.

Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound.

[Asked whether he would like to see an experimental demonstration of conical refraction] No. I have been teaching it all my life, and I do not want to have my ideas upset.

Locked up from mortal eye in shady leaves of destiny.