Every time I overcome an obstacle, it feels like success. Sometimes the biggest ones are in our head - the saboteurs that tell us we can't.

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

It's great to have something to dress up for. You know, I spent three years in slacks at drama school, so now I like putting a dress on.

I dress according to how I feel.

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.

I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

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.