Booker T. Washington

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

I was a really bad teenager and I got my tongue pierced. I don't even remember where I did it, but it was under very surreptitious circumstances.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.