“If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.”

I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, “Do you know how fabulous you are?”

I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.

It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.

And this is what was fascinating to me about ‘The Help’; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.

If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don’t see it.

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.

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.

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.

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.

Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.

I want to span different genres. I want to be able to transform. I want to be able to be sexy, and funny, and quirky, and all the other things that I am. And I feel that the best way that I can achieve that is by producing.

That’s why there’s so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.

I am not a glam woman – this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.

Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one’s balance. I think that it’s very damaging.

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.

Our world today so desperately hungers for hope, yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus.

Love happens! I release the desperate need for love, and instead, allow it to find me in the perfect time-space sequence.

Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.

Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.

I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day.

Above all, we must understand that in leaving the toxic ways of the present we are healing ourselves, our places, and our planet. We rebel not as a last act of desperation but as a first act of creation.

If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it’s not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.