H.E.R. Damage (2020)

My tits bother you? They’re covered in Swarovski crystals, girl!

BEYONCÉ 

“If you still want to work as an actor and be creative and empowered as an actor I swear you can still do it, you know what I meant? Because if there’s going to be a Korean prostitute, it’s going to be me, because I know I don’t have dialogue in English, I would end up being cut out but in the universe of it you got a pan across that and you’re going to pan across my face and I’m going to be doing it. I’m going to be fucking filmed.”  

from the dining table / HS

Grey’s Anatomy, This Is How We Do It (S07E17)

“Being one of a few black women — but also dark skinned women — given the opportunity, representation is key,” she says. “Who’s to say the next time they give another girl the opportunity? It could be in 10 years. I understand [the importance of] that responsibility. It’s much more than just music”

It’s one of those things people say. ‘You can’t move on until you let go of the past.’ Letting go is the easy part, it’s the moving on that’s painful. So sometimes we fight it, trying to keep things the same. Things can’t stay the same though. At some point you just have to let it go. Move on. Because no matter how painful it is, it’s the only way we grow. – Meredith Grey