"For black women our sense of ourselves is not always consistent with the way other people see us."

“Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.”

“Maybe tomorrow is counting on me To learn my lessons today I'll start by taking a step at a time And stop throwing my blessings away I'll get myself up and I'll brush myself off And take back some of the pride that I've lost 'Cause you can't always keep your feet on the ground I guess we all learn the hard way and we all fall down”

Source : Song: We All Fall Down

“Food and wine. Decide which is the soloist, which the accompanist.”

“I need to keep it spontaneous as an artist, so for me to repeat a face would be redundant and boring.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

“Ladies and Gentlemen, Hillary Clinton is a crook.”

“At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.”

Source : "A Lord’s Call To Arms: David Puttnam Addresses Edinburgh" by Peter Knegt, www.indiewire.com. June 22, 2009.

“You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.”

Source : Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press

“I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative.”