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.

You can’t eat beauty. It doesn’t feed you.

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.

Beautiful people have many advantages, but so do friendly people.

Drama is my sweet spot, but the thing about being an actor is that you want to do a variety of things. I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.

I think it's a real gift to be faced with man's potential for extreme cruelty but also man's resilience and the fact that love really does conquer everything. It's the only answer to these kinds of atrocities and it's not a passive thing.

In the madness, you have to find calm.