My deepest desire is to create a world where there's room for all of us, where no matter who you are, you get to wake up in the morning and know that….

I feel like I barely survived Django (Unchained) emotionally - the violence, hearing the N-word every day. It cost me a lot psychologically, but it w….

My understanding of Twitter was that it was a bunch of famous people telling you when they're going to the bathroom. And, that was not something I wa….

Because having your story told as a woman, as a person of color, as a lesbian, as a trans person, or as any member of any disenfranchised community, ….

I don't gravitate toward any one designer because I think of fashion as the costume of the everyday woman..

I work very physically as an actor. The biggest thing for me has been the challenge of how to be this person [Olivia Pope] with the personal transfor….

We as women put ourselves in this situation of feeling like we can’t take a risk, like in order to step out there we have to be perfect, because we’r….

I think my first big heartbreak made me more compassionate about other people's heartaches. It enabled me to feel more for others when they are in mo….

I'd never really heard of financial abuse, although it makes so much sense when you hear it defined..

There are already a number of gatherings centered around women of color who are doing inspiring work..

I'll be honest with you. I'm a little bit of a loner. It's been a big part of my maturing process to learn to allow people to support me. I tend to b….

Sometimes it's hard for me to tell the difference between independent filmmaking and studio filmmaking because all the studios have these little inde….

I get through the tough times through prayer and meditation. And I have really good friends and family, and a great therapist..

The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allo….

I can be in a little bit of a state of overwhelm and panic if I don't start out being connected to grace and gratitude..

Art curates compassion. Art to me breaks down walls and allows us to step into somebody else's shoes..

I just want [my daughter Isabelle] to know that she's heard. Really heard, because I feel like that is what we all really want. When I think about an….

There are so many untold stories when it comes to great women of color..

Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential..

As a young girl, my real dream was to be the woman in the shows at SeaWorld..

I feel like any single woman of color who's been onstage has a Shakespeare monologue in her back pocket, and a monologue from 'For Colored Girls.' It….