Ultimately, it's not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people's expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.

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.

You did it! You are free!!!!!!!!

More than anything, it's my son's smile and love that makes me light up!

What's nice about having an engineering degree is everybody thinks you are smart.

What really makes the difference in innovation is whether the corporate culture is paying attention to innovation.

People think that I don't work, and I fly around in Oprah's private plane doing whatever I want.

I find myself going out on the road to get my confidence back, because I lose it at home.

When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much they admire them, how grateful they are.

I think the conventional wisdom is vastly true. There will be a huge growth in mobile, and this is something we are witnessing every day.

I've learned one important thing about God's gifts - what we do with them is our gift to Him.

The least stupid question a man asks in his lifetime is not: Is there a God and is He a god or a devil? But: Brother, why are you killing me?