You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.

At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.

I haven't seen most of what I've done. I can't even list them. Most television jobs. I haven't seen a lot.

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.

The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. And I think that's a powerful message in this time of political strife.