African people worldwide are known to be welcoming and open-minded.

I think what irks me is that I feel like women are really being compartmentalized physically, and it's been done so much that now we're doing it to ourselves. I don't like it.

I did an internship at the Ardent theatre company in Philly after dropping out of college. I was earning $165 a week building sets and cleaning the toilets. Cleaning toilets is a good way of getting in touch with your creativity. That's when you find out if you got anything going on in your head.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.

When I get onstage, I automatically feel beautiful.

I want to continue growing as an actress. There are ways that I can reach quicker, or deeper, with acting.