I've always seen myself for who I am, which is a lot of things. So, I guess that when I walk into a room, I bring all those things to a role, and I've always just simply seen myself as an actor.

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.

Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it. Polly B. Berends

You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a comedian. My job is like Archie Bunker.

'E.T.' was the movie that made me want to make movies in the first place, and it was the first movie that made me focus on writing instead of what happens in the movie.

Communications without intelligence is noise. Intelligence without communications is irrelevant.

The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.

War therefore is an act of violence to compel our opponent to fulfill our will.

As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.

Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.

I dreamt of being like Ronaldo, Ronaldinho Gaucho.

If the hoods don't get you, the monoxide will.