Kym Whitley quotes:

Voice work is the best - no need to dress up, no audience, no pressure, nobody's judging you.

It is a challenge trying not to give in to pleasing other people.

I love Cleveland, and I love going back home. That's where my family is. That's where my roots are.

College Road Trip' is colorless. It's not a black film. It's not a white film.

I encourage people to get a village so that there will always be someone who's like family looking out for your child.

I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect and construction my whole life.

A woman is a woman. A woman has male problems, has job problems, and I think funny is funny.

In the African American community, we are very 'hush, hush' about things in our life.

My parents were funny. My brothers were funny. We just laughed and had a good time. Growing up, it breeds that. It breeds your funny. It breeds your creativity.

'College Road Trip' is colorless. It's not a black film. It's not a white film.

Sometimes, moms have to be creative to get their babies to eat healthy.

My cousin was Ron O'Neal, who was 'Superfly.' Films like 'Shaft' and 'Superfly' were the biggest things out there in the early '70s. It's hard to remember just how big they were - how much impact they had on the culture, the music, the fashions, the hair styles.

As an actress, our hours can be grueling, and like any mother that has a career or job, it is difficult. Balancing spending time with your child in the morning and after they come home from daycare/school before is the key.

It feels like I'm in a swimming pool, and I am constantly trying to stay above water. Sometimes I feel like I'm slipping, and you try to come up for air, and that's how it is when looking for the next role.

Of course I watch 'Life with La Toya' on OWN.

Carrying envy makes life more difficult.

I've always wanted to work with children, to help people, and to be funny.

My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was very nurturing and loving, but very stern. She was a disciplinary. My dad was also very loving.

If you could draw a picture of the best high school in the world - where all the teachers are wonderful and all the classrooms are beautiful, it would be my high school.

Back in the day, we ate fresh; our parents cooked. Now, we're starting to think things are fresh because they're in a can, they're in a box, or they're frozen. That's not fresh. It's difficult to get real fresh.

I've always dreamed of becoming a mother. I thought I would get married and do it all the traditional way, but life kept going on, my career kept me busy - and I had not stopped to become a mommy.

I'm always fighting with profanity and Christian comedy. I'm telling you, it's always a fight. Because my father said to me, he said, 'Well, Kym, I feel like comics and people that use profanity, you have a lack of vocabulary, actually, a whole lot.'

I believe that people just want to laugh and have a good time.

I love female company. I love men, but women are different.

I want adopted people to know they were chosen.

I'm not cheap, I'm thrifty.

The OWN network is all about inspiring and enlightening.

I've always had an entourage. Even when I was a little kid, I had a lot of little children following around me.

Sometimes, moms have to be creative to get their babies to eat healthy."

So many people are busy working now, but we need to go back to the old days when grandma and the neighbors helped raise the children, and we were all the better for it.