My top 13 Viola Davis quotes.

“It was the sort of poverty that makes you feel invisible. I left home for school every day either hiding or angry.”

“You find and become yourself when you find who you were messily, uncomfortably who you were born to be. ”

“When the only way out is in your mind and you do not see it, it is hard to master that within yourself.”

“Sometimes the dragons that you slay are not dragons at all, but it’s you. You get in the way.”

“The two most important dates in your life are the day you were born and the day your realize why you were born.”

“We need sacred spaces of healing and sharing and education.”

“Courage is fear, said with prayers.”

“If you’re afraid to dive, dive afraid.”

‘The elixir is the owning of my story.”

“The only thing I can give the world is me.”

“My life has been the culmination of great adventures, but the greatest adventures have been the personal.”

“Embracing of one’s self than parents, educators, administrators and independent schools. There is an assault on individuality.”

“Fear and failure are part of your success.”