What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.

I've worked hard to feel beautiful in my natural skin. Personally, I don't ever want to depend on makeup to feel beautiful.

As actors, you become an expert at starting over.

Being called gorgeous is not a bad thing! But at the same time, I don’t want to thrive on people’s opinions of me.

There is no shame in black beauty.

I remember in my very first fitting, costume designer Patricia Norris gave me a garment with these intricate stitches - stitches over stitches, because it had been repaired so many times. Once I put it on, she told me that it belonged to an actual slave woman. My heart just stopped. Each one of the stitches had a story, you know. Just recognizing this period I was going to be dancing with was a "come to Jesus" moment.

We don't get to pick the genes we want. There's room in this world for beauty to be diverse.