Study and know that we are always a student of the craft well after we've completed any course of study... and approach the work as a servant, not a star.

We're living in a time where we all got to stay woke !

Understanding that what it is that you're doing isn't limited to the roles and the rejection, it's bigger than that, it's about your purpose in life.

I felt validated and valued , and here was this woman [Whoopi Goldberg ] inside my television screen who gave me a voice.

[I want to be remembered] as a small piece of the puzzle sent here to serve a bigger picture.

The real truth is that [Harriet Tubman ] spirit is so powerful that it consumes you. I was literally reduced to basic breath and blinks while she inhabited my vessel and told her story through me.

[Harriet Tubman] lived such a full, complex, and irrefutably-dynamic life that all the craft in the world would be insufficient in honoring her legacy.

I did my homework, of course, by inhaling as much literature as was available to find, so that when it was time to shoot I could hopefully exhale [ Harriet Tubman ].

An opportunity to honor the legacy of the lives drawn into the lines in my face, the broad of my nose, the dark of my eyes, the fullness of my lips, and coal in my complexion.

Rosa Parks was primed, she had the Civil Rights Movement behind her, she didn't just decide to sit on the bus, it was strategic.

I am indebted to [my grandmothers] always for cradling me in the heart of Christ and encouraging my passion to press towards the mark of the high calling on my life, wherever that takes me.

But should not atheists have an equal obligation to explain the origin of pleasure in a world of randomness and meaninglessness?

Marriage is like a fingerprint. Everyone's is different.

What corrupt corporate governments call a terrorist is what many common people call a resistance fighter.

How strange that he should feel trapped by plans he himself had set in motion.

And, of course, I began drawing so much - wild, undisciplined pencil drawings and watercolors of knights battling and such.

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

The impressions of childhood are never obliterated.

I myself have seen the floating ships And nothing will ever be the same The shouts, The harrowing voices within the house. I stand apart with an army: My mind is graven with ships.

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.