I've done a really bad job with teaching daughter to put on makeup, but I have taught her how to put on lipstick.

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.

Babe!

Hatred is exhausting. You must constantly remind yourself why you hate someone and waste needless energy to keep hating them.Forgiveness

Kindness kindled the love in human heart.

They are so frail humans. So easily crumpled and broken, like flower petals under foot.

People say both Obama and I have trouble laughing at ourselves. We can't laugh at ourselves. That would be racist!

Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that.

Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort of way. No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

When you read the history of the human family, it slowly comes to you that all the world's oceans once fell as tears.

What we're doing is giving her new exciting fashion things every month.