It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well.

I feel that if you can transcend the color of your skin, with your talent, why carry that as a badge or a label?

For me, what I try to heal is the major thing that I think all of us go through, where we came from. From our family of origin.

My advice for achieving success is to make a career choice that reflects your passion. Then work your craft a little bit each day - even if someone's not paying you to do it. Try to balance your social life with your educational (or professional) life, and have patience.

I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions.

If I can look at each character that I am given and create them in a different way from the last role, I'm happy.

As human beings, when we're young, we're not jaded. As we grow older, we begin to take on ideas of our parents, family of origins and that changes us. We become less fluid sometimes. So for me, I look for roles that are uplifting in many ways - no matter what the race or color of the role is. I want to go beyond that and try to share what I think my gift is and that is we all have this gift of choice. We just don't sometimes realize we have that choice.