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.

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

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 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.

I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.

I feel a responsibility to myself and my parents and the people whose love has gotten me this far - people who were in my life before fame. That's where I get my sense of self. It's deadly for anyone to take on that role of a deity; it's not sustainable. I've got tons of flaws. Call my mother - she'll tell you! She keeps it real. Sometimes you don't want to hear the truth; she'll tell it to you out of love.

What I will say is that what I have learned for myself is that I don’t have to be anybody else; and that myself is good enough; and that when I am being true to that self, then I can avail myself to extraordinary thingsYou have to allow for the impossible to be possible.