As actors, you become an expert at starting over.

Growing up in Kenya, slum life was not far away. I had family that lived in slums, so I visited them often, and so I've seen and interacted with abject poverty. But I also know that because of that, poverty is not the definition of the people that live there.

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.

There is no shame in black beauty.

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.

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.

I went to the Independent Spirit Awards and won.