“I tell my daughter every morning, ‘Now, what are the two most important parts of you?’ And she says, ‘My head and my heart.’ Because that’s what I’ve learned in the foxhole: What gets you through life is strength of character and strength of spirit and love.”
""I will not be a mystery to my daughter. She will know me and I will share my stories with her—the stories of failure, shame, and accomplishment. She will know she’s not alone in that wilderness.""
- Viola Davis
Love
"My biggest discovery was that you can literally re-create your life."
- Viola Davis
Transformation
"As black women, we’re always given these seemingly devastating experiences — experiences that could absolutely break us. But what the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly. What we do as black women is take the worst situations and create from that point."
- Viola Davis
Transformation
"You can’t be hesitant about who you are."
- Viola Davis
Self-awareness
"Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you."
- Viola Davis
Self-awareness
"Love sees not with the eyes, but with the heart."
- Beauty and the Beast
Love
"The spell will be broken, the Beast will cease to exist, and I will become a prince once more, if she can learn to love and be loved in return."
- Beauty and the Beast
Love
"Love is not about finding someone perfect, but about accepting their imperfections."
- Beauty and the Beast
Love
"Love can break even the most powerful of curses."
- Beauty and the Beast
Love
"Love is not a choice, but a force that binds souls together."
- Beauty and the Beast
Love