Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.

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They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.

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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny.

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I’m a black woman who is from Central Falls, Rhode Island. I’m dark skinned. I’m quirky. I’m shy. I’m strong. I’m guarded. I’m weak at times. I’m sensual. I’m not overtly sexual. I am so many things in so many ways and I will never see myself on screen. And the reason I will never see myself up on screen is because that does not translate with being black.

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

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

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Relationships change us and make us grow.

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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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Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. And I think that's a powerful message in this time of political strife.

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We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

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