Cicely Tyson

"To be seen in this life, truly observed without judgment, is what it feels like to be loved."

- Cicely Tyson

"Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew."

- Cicely Tyson

"All of the challenges will make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew."

- Cicely Tyson

"Knowing your generational story firms the ground upon which you stand. It makes your life, your struggles and triumphs, bigger than your lone existence. It connects you to a grand plotline."

- Cicely Tyson

"I have learned not to allow rejection to move me."

- Cicely Tyson

"Just walking through this life as a Black person, and actually surviving that, was and still is an ovation-worthy performance."

- Cicely Tyson

""I have learned not to allow rejection to move me.""

- Cicely Tyson

"When you don't know your true value, you see the world through the lens of how you don't measure up."

- Cicely Tyson

"The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat."

- Cicely Tyson

"Healing, as I see it, is not the absence of pain. Rather it is a gradual reduction in the ache. The lessening of that hurt eventually makes room for fond memories to surface."

- Cicely Tyson

"Social transformation is not measured in weeks or months, but in generation."

- Cicely Tyson

"Age is just a number. Life and aging are the greatest gifts that we could possibly ever have."

- Cicely Tyson

"Resentment corrodes the veins of the person who carries it."

- Cicely Tyson