My acting gives me my self-worth

The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.

Don't envy someone else's gift. Discover your own.

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.

Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.

I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.

Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.

Poverty and wealth inequality are a form of instability into the future.

Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.

Your gift is not what you do but what you are

Red was ruby, green was fluorescent, yellow was simply incandescent. Color was life. Color was everything.Color, you see, was the universal sign of magic.

Why, we are just the same - I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!

Travel is as much a passion as ambition or love.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards becoming a champion.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

I know that Marianne Williamson cannot be bought

There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.

I'll still run him on the ice tomorrow.