Latest Kerry Washington Quotes from Interviews

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• I just want to keep having the courage to raise the bar for myself, and to keep striving for excellence in artistic integrity and public service. And to continue to challenge myself to move outside of my comfort zone, personally and professionally.

  Kerry Washington

  Integrity, Moving, Challenges

  Source: aalbc.com

• I think everything in life happens for a reason. I always think there's room for me to improve as a person.

  Kerry Washington

  Thinking, Reason, Life Happens

  Source: aalbc.com

• I get through the tough times through prayer and meditation. And I have really good friends and family, and a great therapist.

  Kerry Washington

  Prayer, Good Friend, Meditation

  Source: aalbc.com

• When I look in the mirror, I see an ever-unfolding process.

  Kerry Washington

  Source: aalbc.com

• Study! Study ! Study! Get an education.

  Kerry Washington

  Study

  Source: aalbc.com

• If I ever have a family one day, everything else will pale in importance to that.

  Kerry Washington

  One Day, Importance

  Source: aalbc.com

• It's exciting to me that people know that I'm someone who's very political.

  Kerry Washington

  People, Political, Exciting

  Source: aalbc.com

• For me, self-love is like: Am I sleeping enough? Eating well? Not: Am I eating well to be able to fit into my skinny jeans? But: Am I eating well to be healthy and strong? And to acknowledge the good, because there is always a lot of good.

  Kerry Washington

  Strong, Sleep, Healthy

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I have to do the work of self-love and affirmation, and say, "I am a woman, I am a person of color, I am the granddaughter of immigrants, I am also the descendant of slaves, I am a mother, I am an entrepreneur, I am an artist, and I'm joyful." And maybe in seeing my joy, you can finish your sentence with, "And I am joyful too."

  Kerry Washington

  Mother, Artist, Entrepreneur

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Sometimes, when we're feeling challenged in life, we feel a pull to isolate, and for me part of the joy of being a wife, a mother, and in a cast of friends is allowing myself to be in spaces of love. So being open to that love.

  Kerry Washington

  Mother, Wife, Joy

  Source: www.glamour.com

• My deepest desire is to create a world where there's room for all of us, where no matter who you are, you get to wake up in the morning and know that you are worthwhile and deserving. If that's the world I want to live in, I have to do the work to make that true for me.

  Kerry Washington

  Morning, Desire, Wake Up

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Art curates compassion. Art to me breaks down walls and allows us to step into somebody else's shoes.

  Kerry Washington

  Art, Wall, Compassion

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Idea of holding each other’s hands at the Women’s March—it feels like we are being invited to do that every day. So many of us are feeling attacked, whether it’s a woman’s right to choose or headstones in a Jewish cemetery, immigrants being deported or banned. So many of us feel the need to protect and defend our democracy. And march toward the dream of being “We the people.” So that’s exciting, scary, and frustrating. We’re awake. We are awake more than ever before, and we have to stay awake.

  Kerry Washington

  Dream, People, Scary

  Source: www.glamour.com

• I can be in a little bit of a state of overwhelm and panic if I don't start out being connected to grace and gratitude.

  Kerry Washington

  Gratitude, Grace

  Source: www.glamour.com

• For me, 40 feels like a beginning. I'm in the middle of so much new - with this career, the kids, and I'm still sort of a newlywed. I'm excited to be at this stage in life.

  Kerry Washington

  Kids, Excited

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Voting for [Donald] Trump Is Voting Against Ourselves.

  Kerry Washington

  Voting, Trump

• I think my first big heartbreak made me more compassionate about other people's heartaches. It enabled me to feel more for others when they are in moments of pain.

  Kerry Washington

  Pain, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• There are so many untold stories when it comes to great women of color.

  Kerry Washington

  Color, Stories, Untold Stories

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• There are already a number of gatherings centered around women of color who are doing inspiring work.

  Kerry Washington

  Color, Numbers, Gathering

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• It is important to have friends and family around that I love and trust and who love and trust me.

  Kerry Washington

  Important, Family And Friends, Love And Trust

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

• To meet somebody who's able to harness the level of courage it takes to walk away and to choose your own life and your own health, the well-being of your family, is really inspiring.

  Kerry Washington

  Levels, Able, Harness

  Source: www.sheknows.com

• Whenever I talk to survivors [of a domestic abuse relationship] who have lived through that and are on the other side and their whole perspective on life is a complete 180, I'm just so inspired.

  Kerry Washington

  Perspective, Abuse, Survivor

  Source: www.sheknows.com

• I think all of us in our lives feel like we can't make a difference or we can't make a change or it's too late or we're too tired or we're too scared.

  Kerry Washington

  Tired, Thinking, Differences

  Source: www.sheknows.com

• When somebody shows up at your job and jeopardizes your job, yelling and screaming, that's financial abuse. It threatens your ability to take care of yourself.

  Kerry Washington

  Jobs, Yelling, Abuse

  Source: www.sheknows.com

• From what I've been told, the scariest part of being part of a domestic abuse relationship is the idea that you cannot escape and you cannot get help, that feeling of being stuck.

  Kerry Washington

  Ideas, Feelings, Abuse

  Source: www.sheknows.com