We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?

The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch - what make you go beyond the norm.

I am not a quitter. I will fight until I drop. It is just a matter of having some faith in the fact that as long as you are able to draw breath in the universe, you have a chance.

If each person in this world will simply take a small piece of this huge thing, this amazing quilt, and work it regardless of the color of the yarn, we will have harmony on this planet.

I saw that I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. So I made a choice to use my career as a platform to address the issues of the race I was born into.

Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.

You never know what motivates you.

All I have to do is find someone who has something to say that will enrich my life and they can't get rid of me.

Children should have a balanced start in life: a mother and a father. I think that's the only reason to get married.

I will lead my people out of bondage, Lord.

The strongest storms make the best sailors. The strongest games make the best players. Tougher challenges make the best leaders.

Christians should seek after holiness—without which no man shall see the Lord. Let us seek ardently the kind of life that reflects the beauty of Jesus and marks us as being what saints ought to be!

They never understood what Harry Potter was about. Or maybe they didn't want to understand.

I had become a perfect fake human, saying the stupid and pointless things that humans say to each other all day long.

...at morning, I'm unruffled - I'll sit with my tea and Muse Cat beside me and listen to the soft chime of the grandfather clock...

Six pints of bitter, said Ford Prefect. And quickly please, the world's about to end.

Mirth is the Mail of Anguish --

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it.

Celebrity is more than a culture today; it is an industry, complete with fame factories.

Sweetie, she-warriors don"t scream. We wow our men with a look, tame them with a smile.