Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.

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Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

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

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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.

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Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.

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I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.

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Relationships change us and make us grow.

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

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At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.

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