Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.

Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.

Sitcoms are incredibly limiting. When you do a sitcom and it becomes a signature part for you, it's harder to do something else; but if you do a drama, you can get lost in it and have a role to do other things.

Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.

I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in the morning.

I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.

Pain doesnt have a face and pain doesnt have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal.