I am an actor. I am an artist. I am a daughter. I am a sister. I am a partner. I have a past that some people may not agree with, but it does not define who I am.

It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.

It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the power of understanding

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flattery

I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess

Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me

You must begin to define yourself. You must begin to define your Black heritage.

Your past mistakes don’t define your future accomplishments.

Don’t let anyone define your worth; you are the only one who can determine that.

Success is not just about winning. It’s about the lessons learned along the way.

Never let anyone define you or limit your potential. You define yourself.

I’m definitely on the pursuit of perfection…I will always be learning.

Study the past if you would define the future.

But this quantum only takes on its full significance when we try to define it with regard to a concrete natural movement – that is to say, in duration.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Most innovators are successful to the extent to which they define risks and confine them.

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

If intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to shape it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies — to use it as cats use stealth, as katydids use camouflage — to make it the tool of our survival.

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

For Black women as well as Black men, it is axiomatic that if we do not define ourselves for ourselves, we will be defined by others — for their use and to our detriment

If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive

I used to have a fake Louis Vuitton bag because I thought it meant something in life. But now I realize that all the things in the world don’t define you. It’s what you stand for, what you’re willing to do, how close to the truth you’re willing to be in your life.

I will not define time, space, place and motion, as being well known to all.