Boundaries don’t keep other people out, they fence you in.
I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, engaged, powerful people, are busy doing.
The only limit to success is your own imagination.
You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.
You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don’t have a job? Get one. Any job. Don’t sit at home waiting for the magical opportunity. Who are you? Prince William? No. Get a job. Go to work. Do something until you can do something else.
Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just do. So you think, “I wish I could travel.” Great. Sell your crappy car, buy a ticket to Bangkok, and go. Right now. I’m serious.
Most of the women I saw on TV didn’t seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.
The expected is what keeps us steady. It’s the unexpected that changes our lives forever.
When people show you who they are, believe them. I carry that with me a lot. It has served me well.
Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.
Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It’s what you do.
You are not alone. You are seen. I am with you. You are not alone.
I don’t understand why people don’t understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.
Making it through the ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other woman’s footprints.
Mother is a verb, not a noun.
Nobody got anything great by playing it safe.
Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.
I happen to like debating, and I like to debate like a lawyer, and I can argue any points to death, and I will.
You can’t tell stories and really walk in someone’s shoes and not have a love for them, even if they’re doing horrible things.
I’m a black woman every day, and I’m not confused about that. I’m not worried about that. I don’t need to have a discussion with you about how I feel as a black woman, because I don’t feel disempowered as a black woman.