Unfortunately, there's a lack of roles for women of color, so you actually have to be the engineer creating some of those roles.

I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script.

I can only live in my truth.

You can't be from Montgomery, Alabama, and not have a background in the church. It's at the core of who we are as a people.

I want to see more women behind the scenes.

If you go through life and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

At 21, you can live life with reckless abandon, as reckless as your abandon is. Then, at 30, there's something there are the supposed to be's. You're like, "I'm supposed to be doing this. I'm supposed to be doing that." You start measuring your life by what you think you're supposed to be doing. Having recently turned 40, it's like, "What the hell?! Why am I worried about what I'm supposed to be doing? What do I want to do?" You become fine with wherever the road takes you.