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It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.

And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

I don't have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn't love me has to say about me.

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

They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.

I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.

I am addicted to any facial product that's anti-aging.

When you see what the deficit is, then you have to do something about it.

Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.

I think watching my mom gave me great inspiration, I wish that had been reinforced more verbally. It would have kept me from a lot of pain.

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

It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.

I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent

I did want to mark the fact that it was the first African-American to win the Lead Actress category.I thought it was so progressive.

I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?"

I am not a morning person, but I always work out - always.

I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.

I've been in this business 25 years. I've been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway ... I've seen the unemployment line a lot.

I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color.

To me, it's always a luxury to be able to work with the best of the best because they make it easier for you to do what you do.

Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.

I think that I'm coming off as the biggest alcoholic in the world.

I needed to make my wig ogg because I no longer wanted to apologize for who I am

Eating bread in Hollywood is a no-no!

I am not a glam woman - this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.

Even when I get the fried-chicken special of the day, I have to dig into it like it's filet mignon,

I've always seen myself for who I am, which is a lot of things.

Motherhood is 50 million heartbreaking moments, and 100 million joyous ones.

It's always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.

Relationships change us and make us grow.

And I sit in my jacuzzi with my script.

I've done a really bad job with teaching daughter to put on makeup, but I have taught her how to put on lipstick.

If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don't see it.

We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.

I talk to women all the time and try to impart wisdom.

I just hope this [Emmy] is now a part of the status quo that women of color are included in the narratives that continue to write lead roles for us.

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.

My biggest fear is that a paparazzi or someone ... is going to come in my backyard and see me when I get in my pool. That would be very unfortunate.

People are just not impressed by me at home.

I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish,

They say the two most important days in a persons life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.

When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.

All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.

You can't be hesitant about who you are.

Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

I love Wal-Mart. You can put that down. I love Wal-Mart. My husband and I hang out there.

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

I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that's the one I'd be interested in redoing.