I want to have conversations, because they give you confidence in your choices. I learned it first on Boyz n the Hood, but it is not a race-based experience - it is part of the artistic process.

I admire the women who can have babies and jump right back to work. As a nursing mother, I couldn’t sit there and just pump all day. I needed to be close to my baby.

Enjoy life, study hard, play hard, be kind to other people, set high standards, and don't be afraid to say "No."

I think it's a beautiful thing when you wear a uniform or a garb which represents a group of people, because what it immediately symbolizes is oneness, togetherness.

The last step will be letting my hair go natural. That's when you'll know I'm free.

I'm a self-made woman. I've never compromised myself.

So I think if we’d just take our time as women, and do what comes natural to us and for us, we would make fewer mistakes.

First of all when you're a mommy like you like the consistency of being on a show like that's just peace of mind, I know I have financial, you know stability.

I've seen some great write ups and I emailed her the other night because I saw her on an awards show recently.

I've always been raised to love everyone, to accept everyone for their differences, and to just be open. But at a young, a very young age, I realized what racism was all about.

I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.

you need power only to do something harmful.otherwise love is enough, compassion is enough.

Gaze upon others with eyes of love.

Only men with intelligence, confidence and absolutely no empathy at all can progress upstairs.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

I think that any important educational goal can be realized via several routes.

I am a Democrat. I have been one all of my life.

Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty is something she needs to touch.

As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things.

Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!

There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.