Quotes About Purpose

I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.

There two things everybody had to do: Go to God and find out what living is for yourself.

No, we will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual. If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it. That is one of the strongest laws God ever made.

She must lend her ears to the sounds of mighty words boiling out of futile men. She must bear something in male form, for after all that is what she was born for—a passageway for boy children.

The will to make life beautiful was strong.

Zora, why do you think dese li'l slim women was put on earth? Couldn't tell you to save my life. Well, dese slim ones was put here to beautify de world. De big ones, musta been put here for de same reason. Ah, naw, Zora. Ah don't agree wid you there. Well then, what was they put here for? To show dese slim girls how far they kin stretch without bustin'.

Sometimes it looks like God's abandoned you, but not for any reason. To make your faith grow and to see that, no matter what happens, you come out OK... It's all for your good. It's all for love, and it's all for making you a strong person.

When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart.

Love is the absolute basis of my career.

What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense.

I think life without spirit is in the dark, it is absurd.

Use, don't abuse.

So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.

I'm not a champion by accident.

Is anything accidental?

I know that one day I'm going to die. I want to accomplish as much as I can before I do.

Everything that happens is according to destiny.

Asked to give advice to a 13-year-old girl about how to lead her life, I say find something you love to do. The goal shouldn't be accumulating money. It might be making changes in the world, or in your country.

I just know what I want in life. I know what I want to achieve.

Once you look back on your career when it's over, you can say, 'This is what I achieved,' or, 'This is what I'm driving.'

I am not, at the end of the day, a mother, a wife, a writer, an activist, a friend. I am a child of God. That's who I was when I came into this world and who I'll be when I leave it. No one can take that from me.

I'm not an activist, I'm an actor. I don't want to be an activist.

I didn't choose to be an actress.

I made up my mind to be an actress when I was 4 years old.