Meagan Good

"It's nothing that I would have ever chosen, and when I realized that it was happening, I was devastated. I was like, 'This is me, Lord. I did everything that I could do to the best of my ability. I don't understand why I did all these things, and then this is my end result.'"

"I can still change people’s minds about me, and I don’t look at that as a bad thing. I look at that as a purpose thing."

"Growing up, me and Christina Milian and Zoe Saldaña were up for a lot of the same things. But also, being Black women, we kind of merged. We could be anywhere between 32 to 43. I kind of feel like we’re all somewhere around the same age of 37."

"Black girls, we don’t get, ‘Let’s hire her now and put her in the gym with a trainer and get her where she needs to be.’ You don’t get to get there and figure it out. You’ve got to come already ready"

"I was like, I look so crazy I just have to sit in this, and let people think what they want to think, and there’s nothing I can do about it"

"But I remember when I was praying, I felt a peace come over me, and I was like, ‘this is an answer to a prayer"

"I didn’t realize it at the time, but my concern with what other people thought about me was such a thing that I had to go through something like that where I literally had no other option, and I had to find my joy and my peace regardless of what everyone was thinking"

"I had to be put in that place in order for me to get as free as I am now"

"It took me a long time to understand that God didn’t do divorce"

"DeVon and I both have free will. So, I had to accept that God didn’t lie when he told me that was my husband. That was my husband. But he didn’t say we’d be together forever. God’s word remains true no matter what happens to you and if anything changes, it’s because sometimes life deals you cards you don’t expect or anticipate, but He’ll still bring you through it and He still has an incredible plan for your life"

"Once I accepted everything, I felt grateful for the time we had together and the beautiful journey. Then there was an excitement. I get to start life all over again, in my prime, with so many incredible things happening in my life and in my career. I get to do this again"

"That’s what I want. Because it’s not about how good of an actress I am, it’s about how good of a person I am. It’s not about what I’ve accomplished in my career or what I will accomplish, it’s about what I’ve accomplished as a human being and how I use my career to accomplish something that’s bigger than myself. That matters more to me"

"I think for a long time they didn’t. And I had to get to a place where I stopped caring in order for me to walk into the place where people now are like, ‘No, I actually get her."

"I've learned to not be as much of a people pleaser"

"I've learned that not everybody's going to get you or like you, and that's okay. And knowing who your tribe is and being really thankful for that, and knowing sometimes they're not your tribe — that's okay too"

"loving and treating people with respect regardless, and never letting how people treat you change the integrity of who you want to be. I think in this season especially, I'm learning to live again in a different way"

"It's just about being present and being really thankful and just taking everything in as it's coming. I think that's the biggest thing for me in the season [is] just being present and every single day and being really thankful for my quality of life and the people I get to do life with"

"My mom was always very clear about being humble, about not believing your own hype and having an identity outside of being an actress"

"Life is not just short, it's precious and so I am just being really intentional about being present"