God wants us. . . to talk to him as to a friend or father-authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
I rather go to see a good play than be in one.
Everybody has a part of her body that she doesn't like, but I've stopped complaining about mine because I don't want to critique nature's handiwork. . . My job is simply to allow the light to shine out of the masterpiece.
When you expect good, it's available constantly, and it makes itself a reality in your life.
I am not getting any younger and am taking a new approach to life.
A good writer - and I think it's this way with actors too - even if you have two lines, you have to do the same complete work as if you're number one on the call sheet. If you get in an elevator and somebody gets on, rides two floors and gets off, that person has a reality that goes back to when they were born. They have memories, they have people, they have a life. They are doing something right now that the camera is on them in their space. We live in our own close-up all the time.
When black women stick together, we are the most powerful force in the universe.
I have the exact opposite problem of every writer I've ever met: Every writer I've ever met writes things that are too long, and they have to edit them down.
Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it.
we ought to realize by now (see Korea, see Vietnam, see Afghanistan, see Iraq, see Iran) that deploying the US military, or dealing billions of dollars a year of arms to our ally of the moment that can serve as a regional rival to our enemy of the moment, is not always the best way to make threats go away. Our military and weapons prowess is a fantastic and perfectly weighted hammer, but that doesn't make every international problem a nail.
I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.