It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.

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.

An introspective man who doesn’t keep a diary consigns himself to a special hell

I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

Mine is studying script and being very academic and trying to be important.

Sometimes a fireman will go to great strenuous lengths to save a raccoon that's stuck in a drainpipe and then go out on the weekend and kill several of them for amusement.

Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.

When I was a kid I was the king of mullets. If you’re wearing a rock T-shirt and you’re a fan of Rush – one of the greatest bands in the universe – you’ve got to have a mullet.

We all make mistakes.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side