About Phylicia Rashad: Phylicia Rashad is an American actress, singer and stage director, best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the long-running NBC sitcom The Cosby Show. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for this part in 1985 and 1986.
Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party...
A person can be big, because of spirit. A person can be big because of their position in the family, the hierarchy in the family. That role has been played by women who are quite thin.
We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense?
How is it that you profess love for God but can't accept another human being?
Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's outside or because of something internal? It's always internal. It is.
I am having a good time doing nothing.
When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is.
If there are no films or plays of interest to me, I don't go. I know how to go to a museum or a library or pick up a good magazine or I can watch the sun set. I know how to live. There's a whole creation out there full of magic and wonder to be explo...
Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's wh...
Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in ...
What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.
If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?
There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.
Things have a way of moving to the left, and then they move back to the right before somebody finds themselves in the center. That seems to be the nature of the creative world. It's not stagnant. I don't get upset about it.
Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.
What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.
I love theater. To have the people onstage right there, to be working in concert with other artists, this is a like a school of fish moving together.
There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.
What he showed me was not what I had to get, but what I already have. I am just myself, and who I am is a lot.
The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.
