Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.
The big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever is your goal, you can get there if you are willing to work.
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.
Your calling isn't something that somebody can tell you about. It’s what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. Nobody can tell you what that is. You know it inside yourself.
Live your best life!
I don’t know what kind of egomaniac is sitting at home thinking about the impact they have had on the culture. It’s not something I actually think about until it comes up.
Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.
I am a person who lives my life based on intention. I don’t do anything without intention because intention determines the outcome of your life. It’s like cause and effect.
What you want to do is to get to the point where you only do what matters to you. The real goal in life is to become more of who you are, so that you can make the choices that really satisfy who you are and what you want to do.
Can I just tell you the truth? I get asked to do a lot of stuff. And all of the years that people have asked me to do things for the film festival, I couldn’t. And so this year, I thought, “Oh, my god, I don’t have a day job. If somebody ask me to do something, I’m going to do it.”
You want to make decisions that are meaningful to you, and that are going to continue to enhance you being who you really are and what your message to the world is, and everybody has one. The real important thing is to know what that message is and how you want to carry that forward.
I see all art as a complement to telling people’s stories. I’m in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that all of us share is the stories of our lives, and everybody has a story. Your story is as important as the next person’s story.
One of the things that I encourage for anybody who is interested in their own charity or philanthropy is to start from where you are and what has mattered to you.
I really feel a sense of responsibility first as a creation of a force that I call God, that’s bigger than myself. And because I’m black, I feel the responsibility to that. I feel the responsibility to my womanness. But more importantly, I feel a responsibility to my humanness.
One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can.
I believe that education is freedom. It provides the tools to affect one’s own destiny.
I can honestly say that I’m not a person who thinks about awards, as much I think about the work itself.
Many things in life inspire philanthropy, such as your faith in humanity and your belief in the human spirit to overcome.
I try to live in the moment and let that moment carry me to the next great place.