When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.

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.

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.

I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent

Ignite the fire in your soul.

Take the risk! You find the right road!

Then he said in his most excellent Mick impression, "Your powers are useless against Ninja Lords, O great zombie hunter! Surrender or feel the sting of the shuriken!

I wasn't the greatest reporter in the world, but I wasn't starting at zero.

I mean no disrespect to anything I did before.

A blue dog, you know, is the opposite of a yellow dog. And a yellow dog was somebody who was willing to follow his party even when he knew it was wrong.

We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.

The chance to love and be loved exists no matter who or where you are.

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.