Learn to embrace your own unique beauty, celebrate your unique gifts with confidence. Your imperfections are actually a gift..

We need to be willing to be uncomfortable, to be flawed, to be imperfect, to own our voice, to step into our light, so that we can continue to inspir….

I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled wit….

It's exciting to me that people know that I'm someone who's very political..

For me, 40 feels like a beginning. I'm in the middle of so much new - with this career, the kids, and I'm still sort of a newlywed. I'm excited to be….

You and you alone are the only person that can live the life that writes the story that you were meant to tell. And the world needs your story becaus….

I have to do the work of self-love and affirmation, and say, "I am a woman, I am a person of color, I am the granddaughter of immigrants, I am also t….

That's what acting is - it's about having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives..

You can be the lead in your own life..

When you leave here today and commence the next stage of your life, you can follow someone else's script, try to make choices that will make other pe….

I'm not interested in living in a world where my race is not a part of who I am. I am interested in living in a world where our races, no matter what….

I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life..

You can never control how people respond to your work. You can only control your own work ethic..

I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative liv….

When somebody shows up at your job and jeopardizes your job, yelling and screaming, that's financial abuse. It threatens your ability to take care of….

I think everything in life happens for a reason. I always think there's room for me to improve as a person..

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you..

Whenever I talk to survivors [of a domestic abuse relationship] who have lived through that and are on the other side and their whole perspective on ….

Study! Study ! Study! Get an education..

You know what's funny is that I have this ongoing relationship with the city of Washington D.C. I went to George Washington University, and my nickna….

I think that the best day will be when we no longer talk about being gay or straight - it's not a 'gay wedding,' it's just a 'wedding'... It's not a ….