Sometimes, when you grow up in one of these poverty-stricken neighborhoods where the educational system isn't the best, you don't realize that you have any choices. Often, kids don't appreciate the choices available, as if it's either the street or nothing. I want them to understand that reality is what's relative to you, and that you can make choices that allow you to create a new reality for yourself.
Keke PalmerGiving back, doing motivational speeches and stuff like that, that's always made me feel good. If you repeatedly go out there, and you are the change that you want to see, then that's what you are.
Keke PalmerOften, kids don't appreciate the choices available, as if it's either the street or nothing.
Keke PalmerI feel like I've reached a point where music has become just as much a priority to me as my acting, and I'm glad to feel that way.
Keke PalmerBeing of service is something that really makes me happy. Being able to tell young kids about something they might never have known without meeting someone with my experiences is what really what I feel it's all about. I feel that's the only way that you get fulfillment out of life.
Keke PalmerSomething that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without a life of service.
Keke PalmerWe have African-Americans and black people getting behind the scenes more and more, we get true black images in television and film...because we have black people behind them. They can tell stories from those points of view and bring to life those characters who have yet to be shown. As long as we have people behind the camera just as much as in front of the camera doing the work, then we'll always be good.
Keke Palmer