What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.
You have to learn how to care about people without taking on all of their problems.
Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure.
There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.
Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.
Everything you do, every thought you have, every word you say creates a memory that you will hold in your body. It's imprinted on you and affects you in subtle ways - ways you are not always aware of. With that in mind, be very conscious and selective.
I am just myself, and who I am is a lot.
The act of giving expands one's entire life experience because nothing is more fulfilling than one's capacity to give.
Where the women go, the culture goes.
I believe the universe conspires to give you everything you desire.
If I had known being insane was so much fun, I'd have gone crazy long ago.
Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.
How is it that you profess love for God but can't accept another human being?
When you're free from the idea of doership then something else within you emerges. It is yourself.
We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense?
Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.
I want people to see some of their own humanity no matter who they are.
I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That's not just between blacks and whites. That's between all religions as well.
The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.
What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.
Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.
Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.
I am having a good time doing nothing.
When I look at the work, if it speaks to me, I'll say 'yes' and if the work doesn't resonate with me, I'll politely decline.
Things have a way of moving to the left, and then they move back to the right before somebody finds themselves in the center. That seems to be the nature of the creative world. It's not stagnant. I don't get upset about it.
