No matter where you are on your journey, that’s exactly where you need to be. The next road is always ahead.
You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.
Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that’s how I operate my life.
After all these years, I could say thank you to a woman who had a powerful impact on my early life.
I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.
Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.
I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn’t changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I’m just wearing better shoes.
Don’t confuse what people say you are with who you know you are.
Everybody has a story. And there’s something to be learned from every experience.
Learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.
The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance – and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.
What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.
The next road is always ahead.
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
Your life is big. Keep reaching.
I don’t think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
I’ve always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.
I don’t believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.