""When things get tough and you want to give up, faith is that one thing that makes you keep on going because you believe in a better tomorrow. Never give up nothing is impossible"."

""Be honest with yourself, don’t try and be a model if you are an intellectual. Don’t try and be a businessman when numbers are not your thing. Have a general honesty but most importantly have faith of some sort"."

""Be passionate, whatever you doing be passionate about it"."

"Sometimes you have an idea of what your work means to people and other times you don’t and with the internet it was such an immediate and visceral reaction to it and we were just so happy and are still so happy."

"One thing I learnt about doing this job and living in Hollywood for the past ten years is that you never have the job until you are standing in like waiting to get a catering job."

"Do something every day that scares you, which is why I do what I do. It’s just the biggest rush of like adrenaline. Face your fear head on."

"Everyday you have to wake up and do something that scares you, because if you don’t, you’re not living. You have to feel that rush of adrenaline or whatever it is, that spark of energy that makes you feel alive."

"If you want to make it to the top, you’ve got to look out for yourself. And finding support is a very rare thing, especially when your family is all over the place."

"You know, personal experience…you’ve got to learn to be tough, you’ve got to learn to survive."

"There’s talent here and people are recognizing that now.We’ve got great actors, we just haven’t been able to show that because of our past history with apartheid."

"I take pride in the fact that I decided very early in life that I wasn’t going to let my circumstance get in the way of my dreams."

"For many years, I have been battling to find the courage and support to speak up against a number of acts of violence which have happened to me"

"She fought like a trooper. She tried her best, but in the end she was really tired of fighting. My mother fought throughout her life. What pains me the most is she never got that break. She was always fighting through life, working through life. Always doing something for other people ... She gave and got nothing in return"

"I felt my mother going and the pain in her body leaving. When I got to the hospital, the numbness, pins and needles left"

"I spoke to her with faith that she would fight through this. I thought she would pull through. I said a prayer with her. I begged her. I pleaded with her to not leave because I still need her. I don't want to imagine life without her. I am because of her. My world doesn't make sense without my mother. I said those words to her"

"In the past two month’s I have been served with letters from his attorneys to remove my tweets. A protection order was then applied for against me along with an interim order demanding that I delete my tweets and effectively attempting to silence me just after I found my voice to speak about my experiences. This culminated in an arrest warrant being issued against me and my subsequent imprisonment"

"For those who have been asking how they may assist financially, I am making final arrangements with my Attorneys to assist me setting up an ideal vehicle to receive your contributions to cover legal costs and also assist those who are in a position similar to mine. I appreciate all the outpouring of support since the story broke it into the news. Your support is not only for me, but the many other silenced survivors who await their day to find their voice to seek justice. The days of silence are over"

"I too, have finally found the strength and courage to speak out and seek justice In 2014, I was sexually assaulted and raped by Mongezi “TollAssMo” Mahlangu while working on a television production in Paarl, Western Cape. For numerous reasons, I did not open a case at the time and only shared this experience with one of the other participants on the show"

"I always tell myself that I’m running my own race because when I do so, I don’t expect pressure from others."

"When I'm needed, and when the time is right, the world will hear my voice. They will not hear my voice when they feel they should."

"If you haven't been in the child's life for many years you are no longer the father of the child, even if you decide to resurface and take responsibility"

"I'm not above the law"

"Enough is enough. It stops here and it stops today. I'm not going to be diplomatic about this. I'm not going to release press statements, I'm not going to waste my money hiring lawyers to speak on my behalf"

"I know that there's a cancel community – you cannot cancel what you have created."

"My children are a reflection of me – they mirror me in everything, but they’re also a better, upgraded version of me"

"Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted; it’s for soldiers who are godly trusted because kids will test your faith, love and patience"

"Fame has a way of finding you"

"The Kelly today doesn’t care what people say or think of her. The Kelly you see today is not defined by people’s expectations or perceptions of her. She is a liberated being, not defined by society – so, I appreciate her more than I did 20 or 10 years ago"

"A father for a girl-child sets the bar in relation to how you view and relate to men"

"The patriarchal world needs to be demolished."

"I was just thinking who could be responsible and if we did something to upset anyone, we are sorry. I've tried to ignore whatever has been said about me because every week it's something new but it's enough now. It's enough and it's getting ridiculous"

"If we are going to do something for women, and it’s supposed to be an empowerment platform then let it be done by women"

"Women have not really had opportunities to be in the [production] space, even for myself as an executive producer it is shocking that I was the first female executive producer of the Miss South Africa pageant."

"My character has grown extremely big, there is nothing more for her to do on the show and it was time to put her to rest. Maybe one day she will come back, but for now she needed to take a break."

"This show stretched me very thin. I had to make choices as an actor that I didn’t think I would ever need to make. But I had the opportunity to grow"

"Today is a very emotional day for me because it’s an end of a journey. I’ve been apart of the show since the first episode. It was also the first telenovela shot in Durban, and ”Uzalo“ gave me lots of firsts that I will forever be grateful for,"

"We are also human beings. If you prick me, I will feel pain. We have lives, hearts and families and we feel pain"

"People are dying of depression, cancer and HIV and yet South Africans have time for jokes. Half of SA is suffering with some chronic disease which is such a challenge for families, so people need to grow up"

"I had my daughter, Rudo, as a teenager. My mother helped me raise her. (As women) we have big hearts, we support our families and children. If my mother wasn’t there, I wouldn’t have been where I am today"

"In my saddest moments, fashion tells my story"

"You don’t have to wait for someone to tell you that you’re sexy… You’re a fabulous black woman and you don’t apologise for it"

"I’m an African God-fearing woman and in everything that I do, I know it’s my right to enhance my beauty. I celebrate my figure"

"Age doesn’t matter. But what does fashion say about you? It speaks to the way you feel. The way you look tells people how you are feeling. If you’re a woman and you’re not into fashion, I say to you, wake up – it’s the best experience ever"

"If that child could bathe me, he would have bathed me"

"Parents, pay attention to your children. They will save your life one day. I am telling you, I am living proof today"

"My children saved my life"

"You need to equip yourself to know your body and know who you are. Don't get caught off guard like me"

"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed but the mother, never. A mother is something new.""

"With some productions, should you get pregnant the possibility of you not working is high because they would have to change the storyline, so you have to plan your life around your career."

"Being raised by a single mother had its challenges. I had a good upbringing but because we did not have a television at home I had to watch from our neighbours. Growing up in Bloemfontein was OK but there were no opportunities for what I wanted, but the fire in me kept me going."