More Quotes by Viola Davis
They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.
When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.
I don't have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn't love me has to say about me.
At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.
The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.
I was like, 'What is this?' Until I found out it was stress related. That's how I internalized it. I don't do that anymore. My favorite saying in the world is, 'The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.' I am telling you, I have spent so much of my life not feeling comfortable in my skin. I am just so not there anymore.
They say the two most important days in a person's life were the day you were born and the day you discover why you were born.
Let me tell you something: The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.
Relationships change us and make us grow.
