I've never been the kind of actress that just likes to show up and say my lines. I'm fascinated by what the crew does.

I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.

I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.

When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.

I love being a woman and I love being feminine.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.

What I know in my heart is that women and girls on the ground are powerful and that they are leaders.

Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.

But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.

Life is a great wonder.

All great literature is one of two stories

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

Destiny is saying yes to the calling we were born with.

When you're a black superhero you can't erase the notion that you're black.

Let woman be a plaything, pure and fine, like a precious stone, illumined with the virtues of a world not yet come.

Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.

Following Christ is a wild adventure full or risk, frustration, excitement, and setbacks. It is not an evening stroll in a planned community along a well-manicured path.