When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.

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

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

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

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But the biggest beauty advice I've given my daughter is every morning I say, "Genesis, what are the two best parts of you?" And she says "my brain and my heart." And I say, "You've gotta remember that, Genesis. You've gotta remember that you're not what you look like," you know? I think that's the best beauty advice I could give her.

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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.

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

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