Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life.

I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.

I have always loved children. I've been fantasizing about motherhood since I was probably 2 ½. I loved to babysit my cousins, and nieces, you know.

You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.

What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.

I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying we don't have work for black women. But right now I don't know what's next. I hope that there are more opportunities to come my way.