Stop asking, start doing.

If your dream only includes you, it's too small.

Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

When you're in your lane, there's no traffic.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

I've passed along some advice that Oprah [Winfrey] gave to me: When something bad is happening, it's not happening to you; it's happening for you.

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

Because my mom always told me that I could. From a very early age, I felt comfortable leading.

There is no cell culture for depression. You can't see it on a bone scan or an x-ray. Not everyone with depression will show the same behavioral symptoms.

Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart.

When you're born, you're pure. Unspoiled and trusting. I believed everything and everyone. Then, I met my parents!

Heav'nly love shall outdoo Hellish hate

It's not terribly fun defending you (oil companies), but I do.

Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death?

I'm a quiet person, I'm not a flashy art world person. I'm in the studio in the middle of nowhere. There's sheep and fields. The work has to be authentic in that way.

Miami’s like paradise. And I think the beaches are topless. So we’re gonna spend a lot of time at the beach.

When I ponder my mind I consistently find It is glued On food.

The demand for absolute purity of genres is becoming nowadays an anachronism in literature.