Venus Williams

You have to let fear go. Another lesson is you just have to believe in yourself; you just have to. There's no way around it. No matter how things are stacked against you, you just have to every time.

Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.

I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.

If you're nice, if you like yourself, if you treat other people well, you're going to be successful. I guarantee it.

Homosexuality is anti-humanity.

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.