I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?

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.

A blind lover, don't knowwhat I love till I write it out

My role as a role model is to teach my generation how to excel in the role of distinction.

Cosmopolitanism emphasizes and is grounded in a _singular relationality between and among people

The idea is to go to bed every night with fewer enemies than you had in the morning.

I can honestly say, I have the love of my life, and we have the most amazing children.

In some parts of the world, you get scrutinized for saying the wrong thing about art and in other regions, you get scrutinized for saying nothing at all.

Focus on winning the contest with yourself.

The shapes and markings of Felix and Mickey, perhaps more than Oswald, have similarities, but when you are using such simple basic construction (i.e. circles) there is bound to be such duplication.

General: Where are you from? Spike: London. General: Which part? Spike: ... Well, all of me.

That's the good part of having my past follow me, is that sometimes some of that stuff can help.