I've always seen myself for who I am, which is a lot of things.

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.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

When you're through changing you're through.

When billionaire car dealers or manufacturers pay for ambassadorships, at least they pay with money earned by selling something of value.

For mortal kind taketh thought only for the day, and hath no more surety than the shadow of smoke.

Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.

The older you get, the more people think they have to listen to you.

I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s.

What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

Ah, believer, it is only Heaven that is above all winds, storms, and tempests; God did not cast man out of Paradise that he might find another paradise in this world.