I grew up watching foreign programs - American, English, Mexican, and very little Kenyan. 'The Color Purple' was the first time I saw people who looked like me.

I always love to learn new things. That's the reason I like being an actor.

It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

With success comes more responsibility, a larger size of existence, which is uncomfortable.

Every time I overcome an obstacle, it feels like success. Sometimes the biggest ones are in our head - the saboteurs that tell us we can't.

You can't eat beauty, it doesn't sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflamed the heart and merchants the soul.