the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very muchhigher.

Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world.

I am Stephanie Lahart! An intelligent, empowered, and confident Black Queen. Purposely Fearless!

Become Yourself

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation.

When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they will come and they have.

I have to be careful of what TV shows I choose, particularly ones that have commercials in them, because it's going to be a different kind of television show.

We cannot hand our faith to one another.... Even in the Middle Ages, when faith was theoretically uniform, it was always practically individual.

If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life.

It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.