If I'm remembered for having done a few good things and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.

Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.

A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.

I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.

I am the me I choose to be.

You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.

I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.

The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love someone else

Eagles are extinct, " grumbled Morpurgo. "Perhaps they should have attacked the sky. It betrayed them.

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.

Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.

If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.

In my day, everything came from my belly button and seat of the pants. Today, everything is done from research.

Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.