“I had a very depressing response because I realized that these were my own people, these were Negroes throwing eggs at me. I'm concerned about the fact that maybe all of us have contributed to this by not working harder to get rid of the conditions, the poverty, the social isolation, and all of the conditions that cause individuals to respond like this.”
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“The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.”
“Godly people are waiting for the Lord; therefore they live, therefore they are saved, therefore they receive what has been promised.”
“It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church. This involves a destruction of the Church and rebellion against ecclesiastical order; such upheavals must be warded off and punished like all other revolts.”
“I think when people get stuck in situations that go against their soul, they can't be happy. That's all.”
“It's very rare that I play cool people. I'm not sure what that says about me.”
“We are entertainers. We're trying to entertain people.”
“Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.”
“The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.”
“When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.”
“Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.”
“Rainbows are people whose lives are bright, shining examples for others.”
“And I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, "Can I be of help?"”
“if you don't believe in yourself, you'll have some difficulty in making other people believe in you.”
“I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.”
“To hold that Congress has general police power would be to hold that it may accomplish objects not intrusted to the general government, and to defeat the operation of the 10th Amendment, declaring that 'the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.”
“My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from staying alert and alive and involved in the lives of the people that I love and the people in the wider world who need my help.”
“I like who I am now. Other people may not. I'm comfortable. I feel freer now. I don't want growing older to matter to me.”
“How do I do that preparation [for film]? Just an immersion. I have a musician's, I guess, ear for the sound of the voice but it's also important to me, in the case of [playing] someone who is controversial, to get the outlines of the character right because how they present themselves to the world has a great deal to do with how people feel about them.”
“The biggest lesson I learned in my career was to ask other people what they make because the men usually make more than you do. And it's good to know. You're not allowed to ask...but it's good to ask.”