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

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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent

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There's not one woman in America who does not care about her hair, but we give it way too much value. We deprive ourselves of things, we use it to destroy each other, we'll look at a child and judge a mother and her sense of motherhood by the way the child's hair looks. I am not going to traumatize my child about her hair. I want her to love her hair.

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

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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.

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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 would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.

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I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it's possible.

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