It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.

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.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the imagination is worth a thousand pictures.

No matter where we are, God is as close as a prayer. He is our support and our strength. He will help us make our way up again from whatever depths we have fallen.

Well, what is acting but the study of human behavior? And that's so fascinating to me.

I don't have a right to pick the president's cabinet on substance.

We are consciousness whether we are in this reality or whether we are not in this reality; we are eternal consciousness.

What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.

I remember I was in music class, I was a senior in high school, and my music teacher was like, "You should be a stand-up comic, you could imitate anyone.

The Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.

I always drew. I don't remember a time when I didn't draw. And I actually drew comics from the age of maybe ten through twelve.