Don't send me your script if you want me to play the black best friend; I just won't do that.

I do think how two people dance with each other is indicative of how they feel about each other. It can tell a lot more than a verbal scene.

I think the notion that we are different just because of skin color, and that we should be kept apart or kept from interbreeding, is very hurtful.

There's a nimble quality to the way a television actor can work. When that muscle gets strong it's a very valuable thing.

Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.

I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was and what its brutal legacy still is.