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.

Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It keeps us honest.

I grew up in Nairobi, which is the capital of Kenya, so it's hustle and bustle, and there's always something going on.

What I will say is that what I have learned for myself is that I don’t have to be anybody else; and that myself is good enough; and that when I am being true to that self, then I can avail myself to extraordinary thingsYou have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

It's so much more fun to do the work than to talk about it. I will have to admit that. Everybody gets to decide how they feel, and what to take away by themselves, and that's what you hope for. That people will take away different things and have different experiences from the work we do as actors. So I don't like to prescribe how to feel about the work I do.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

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