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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They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.

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I don't have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn't love me has to say about me.

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Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

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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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Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.

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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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You have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it. When you're really passionate, you're going to grab hold of every rope you see, and wrap them around your arms and legs to claw your way out. And that's the way I've felt in my life.

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

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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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