The first time I cut all my hair off was when I was 19. I just got fed up going to the salon every week. I'd had enough! On a whim, it was off. It's low-maintenance.

You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

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 in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.

To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

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.