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

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.

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.

I like to wear things, I don't like things to wear me.

In the madness, you have to find calm.

No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.

I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination.