When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.

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

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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 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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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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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.

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You can't be hesitant about who you are.

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

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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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