English was my fourth language. I arrived, I enrolled in public school, as a child, I believe I was about six years old when we finally landed in Michigan. And I was initially put in special education because I couldn't quite wrap my mind around the English language because I was listening to Hungarian and Albanian and German. My mind broke down like I couldn't quite wrap my mind around the fourth language.

As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy.

Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem.

I think as actors we need to close read scripts and we need to fully understand the intricacies of dialogue as well as the symbolisms of what the actor wears and what they hold in their hand because that only adds more layers to the character.

Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion.

I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old.

My experiences there truly defined who I am to this day as far as my humanitarian work because I was a refugee in Albania.