Quotes from Phylicia Rashad

Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.

What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.

Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense?

I am having a good time doing nothing.

Where the women go, the culture goes.

I want people to see some of their own humanity no matter who they are.

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

How is it that you profess love for God but can't accept another human being?

I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That's not just between blacks and whites. That's between all religions as well.

What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.

Let's just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart.

Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.

A person can be big, because of spirit. A person can be big because of their position in the family, the hierarchy in the family. That role has been played by women who are quite thin.

There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.

If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum or a library or pick up a good magazine or I can watch the sun set. I know how to live. There's a whole creation out there full of magic and wonder to be explored.

If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?

Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.

What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.

Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.

I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together.