Jada Pinkett Smith's Best Facebook Quotes

Pearls of wisdom from the actress and mother.

Jada Pinkett Smith's Best Facebook Quotes - Wife, mother, actress, entrepreneur, feminist and activist: Jada Pinkett Smith wears many hats. The 41-year-old movie star is one of the most self-aware women in Hollywood, and she frequently shares her insights on social media. Here, our collection of Jada's best pearls of wisdom. (Photo: Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images for Gucci)

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Jada Pinkett Smith's Best Facebook Quotes - Wife, mother, actress, entrepreneur, feminist and activist: Jada Pinkett Smith wears many hats. The 41-year-old movie star is one of the most self-aware women in Hollywood, and she frequently shares her insights on social media. Here, our collection of Jada's best pearls of wisdom. (Photo: Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images for Gucci)

On overcoming failure: - "For me, life is about creating an art of how to get out of the holes we fall into, not about creating an art of not falling into them."  (Photo: Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

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On overcoming failure: - "For me, life is about creating an art of how to get out of the holes we fall into, not about creating an art of not falling into them."  (Photo: Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

On same-sex relationships: - "It seems as if there is a spike in same sex love all around. What is changing in which how men and women are relating to one another, that is creating same sex love as a LAST RESORT for heterosexual women?"  (Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week)

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On same-sex relationships: - "It seems as if there is a spike in same sex love all around. What is changing in which how men and women are relating to one another, that is creating same sex love as a LAST RESORT for heterosexual women?"  (Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week)

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On women's rights: - "Soon the reign of shame on a woman's body and her control of it will end. She will be autonomous. For she can't truly be free without it. And oh boy...what a different world this place will be...when she is free."  (Photo: Johnny Nunez/WireImage)

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On women's rights: - "Soon the reign of shame on a woman's body and her control of it will end. She will be autonomous. For she can't truly be free without it. And oh boy...what a different world this place will be...when she is free."  (Photo: Johnny Nunez/WireImage)

On taking control of her life: - "I hated life because, no matter what, it was a waste of my precious time to sit and wait for the people I was blaming to change my circumstances. Waiting had me feeling powerless which made me furious. I had to take my power back from the people and circumstances that had more power over me than my own will."  (Photo: Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images)

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On taking control of her life: - "I hated life because, no matter what, it was a waste of my precious time to sit and wait for the people I was blaming to change my circumstances. Waiting had me feeling powerless which made me furious. I had to take my power back from the people and circumstances that had more power over me than my own will."  (Photo: Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images)

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On pride and shame: - "When we allow others to shame us, we are enslaved to them. When we shame others, they are enslaved to us. Be not ashamed. Be purposeful, respectful and...free." (photo: John Ricard / BET).

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On pride and shame: - "When we allow others to shame us, we are enslaved to them. When we shame others, they are enslaved to us. Be not ashamed. Be purposeful, respectful and...free." (photo: John Ricard / BET).

On having it all: - "I believe that having it all is having literally everything. Happiness with the voids, having the wins and the failures, having loneliness while also being deeply connected to others, and life with death. Every day has a night. Every up has a down. That is the...ALL I believe life has to offer." (Photo: Splash News)

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On having it all: - "I believe that having it all is having literally everything. Happiness with the voids, having the wins and the failures, having loneliness while also being deeply connected to others, and life with death. Every day has a night. Every up has a down. That is the...ALL I believe life has to offer." (Photo: Splash News)

On her marriage: - "Will and I BOTH can do WHATEVER we want, because we TRUST each other to do so. This does NOT mean we have an open relationship...this means we have a GROWN one."(Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

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On her marriage: - "Will and I BOTH can do WHATEVER we want, because we TRUST each other to do so. This does NOT mean we have an open relationship...this means we have a GROWN one."(Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

On race relations: - "If we ask our white sisters, who tend to be the guardians of the covers of mainstream magazines, to consider women of color to grace these covers, should we not offer the same consideration to white women to grace our covers? Should women extend their power to other women simply because they are women? To my women of color, I am clear we must have something of our own, but is it possible to share in the spirit in which we ask our white sisters to share with us?"(Photo: Courtesy of Redbook Magazine)

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On race relations: - "If we ask our white sisters, who tend to be the guardians of the covers of mainstream magazines, to consider women of color to grace these covers, should we not offer the same consideration to white women to grace our covers? Should women extend their power to other women simply because they are women? To my women of color, I am clear we must have something of our own, but is it possible to share in the spirit in which we ask our white sisters to share with us?"(Photo: Courtesy of Redbook Magazine)

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