To me, it's always a luxury to be able to work with the best of the best because they make it easier for you to do what you do.

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.

One day the people that didn't believe in you, will tell everyone how they met you.

History doesn't pass the dishes again.

Life has not taught me to expect nothing but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.

If I'm not working, I have home time with my family, and if I spend that stressing what's going to happen next, then it's a waste. I have a lot to be thankful for.

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

The challenges we've had personally and globally have been the catalysts needed to let go of old ways of being that aren't the vibration of love.

Fellini is a just a province kid. Rome exists for Fellini, not the other way around.

When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.