Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.

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.

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.

You are the owner and controller of the most powerful engine with the potential to win all wars of life—it is your ever changing mind.

When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.

When I get onstage in a play, I feel very safe, very protected, very fulfilled.

Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.

Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.

Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.

Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things.

In a maturing market it's not advisable to be always everybody's darling, because you get too thin.