I was like, 'What is this?' Until I found out it was stress related. That's how I internalized it. I don't do that anymore. My favorite saying in the world is, 'The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.' I am telling you, I have spent so much of my life not feeling comfortable in my skin. I am just so not there anymore.

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

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

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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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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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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. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.

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Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.

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

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