I'm good at giving up control to people who know where they're going and what they want to do. I can sit in the back of a car and ride cross-country if you know where you're going and you know how to take me there.

Keep your dreams ALIVE. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how many people talk about you; they're going to throw dirt on you but that's alright, when they put you in that box (after your dead), they're going to put dirt on you some more, so that's okay - GO, don't be afraid, have NO FEAR.

A degree on the wall, without labels on your back, is nothing.

Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".

It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week.

My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.

I'm a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their child abuse.