The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.

The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

One thing I've learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.

I can only live in my truth.

To be silent is to be passive.

As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.

You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.

The things that scare you only make you better and stronger.

I just know that the one thing that we all have in common is challenges. No one lives a challenge free life.

Everything happens when it's supposed to.

There are enough negative images of Black women out there and I did not want to portray Dorothy Vaughn in any stereotype. I wanted to make sure that her integrity was preserved.

Man tames not vengeance

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

Young mothers are the most vicious tribe in the world if you don't fit in.

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

"Who's Heinz and what's an accordion?"

I swim, I do Pilates, I meditate - I think it's about keeping your stress level as low as you can.

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

Postulate 2. Constant systems of chance causes do exist in nature.