It is not possible to be honest in the here and now when you continue to discount and minimize your childhood experiences.

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Surround yourself with people who respect and treat you well.

Support renewable energy. Recycle. Reuse. Restore. Replenish.

Saying no can be the ultimate self-care.

Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering and letting go.

To free yourself from the past you must break the rules of silence and compliance.

Sisterhood is magical and medicinal - use it as a lifelong resource.

We're one race. No matter our religion, beliefs, mother tongue, or skin color.

People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment

Only place yourself around people who love your strengths and are also safe to be vulnerable around - you'll need both power and vulnerability in womanhood.

Acquiring knowledge through the centuries has influenced human society more than all other factors.

I may not always be right, but when I am, I admit it

I've worked as a labourer, driven taxis and school buses, and been a car mechanic - whatever I could do just to get by. But it does mean that I know a little bit about a lot of things.

I haven't done rap... I can't do that too well.

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.

Nothing is so firmly than that which is least known.

'The Elephant Man' was hugely enjoyable to do. I thought the one stage, when Chris Tucker did the first makeup and it took 12 hours, I thought they'd actually found a way for me not to enjoy filming.

I will stand off the forces of the entire country here... and die a resplendent death.

O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.