We've had these bursts of cool years here or there but that's not change. That's a trend. You only hope that this could be the beginning of true change.

If your dream only includes you, it's too small.

Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

When you're in your lane, there's no traffic.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

I've passed along some advice that Oprah [Winfrey] gave to me: When something bad is happening, it's not happening to you; it's happening for you.

Stop asking, start doing.

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

I know too well howgood-bye can steal more than just the future.

If you can get people to laugh, you can get people to listen.

What an annoying mad thing love is!

...Other countries are way ahead of ours in nutrition.

No woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.

I need say no more, to prove that slavery is entirely unlike the servitude in the patriarchal families.

Between every two pine trees there is a door leading to a new way of life.

Suffering teaches us only that we suffer. Joy shows us which way to go.

Racism and sexism are not "problems" or "topics." They are ways of defining reality and living our lives that most of us learned along with learning how to tie our shoes and how to drink from a cup.

Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons, have their Tutelary and Guardian Angels.