As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.

I'm pretty awesome at making salad dressings.

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

There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

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.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

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.