“The stairs of our industry must be accessible to all. Let’s climb.”

Believe in yourself and go for it.

Women share this planet 50/50 and they are underrepresented, their potential astonishingly untapped.

Women share this planet 50/50 and they are underrepresented, their potential astonishingly untapped.

The stairs of our industry must be accessible to all. Let’s climb.

Supporting women’s and girls organisations is the single greatest hope we have for worldwide transformative change.

Taking action means saying ‘no’ to indifference. If there is a war to be waged, it is the war against the indifference which is eating away at our societies.

Reading is good for your imagination.

I’m reading so much and exposing myself to so many new ideas. It almost feels like the chemistry and the structure of my brain is changing so rapidly sometimes.

I’m a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

I’ve always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.

If you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing things can and will happen.

The reality is that if we do nothing it will take 75 years, or for me to be nearly a hundred before women can expect to be paid the same as men for the same work.

Girls should never be afraid to be smart.

Don’t be ashamed if you don’t like what others pretend to love.

I can be 100 years old but I will always be proud to say I was in Harry Potter.

I’ve always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can’t do it any other way.

There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.

My faith has always taught me that all people deserve to be treated equally.

The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.

Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.

The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.

I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.

Black holes are where God divided by zero.

Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.