You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.

I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.

People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me.

Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.

Believe in yourself. Have faith in yourself because no one else is going to.

It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.

Every body type is different - that's what makes you unique. What makes you special is you, and you are different from the next person.

It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.

There are no moral obligations in the game of empire.

My Love tears me between the addiction of patience and urge of infinite desire

Just feel forgiveness in your heart. The universe will hear you and that will be enough.

I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to work hard at it, the characters and the plots reflect the hours and hours of research.

My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.

The world divides into facts.

It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.

Every step I take is a blessing.

Most of the time, tough, combative, adversarial dialogue is much more exciting than physical action.