When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.

I was kind of a bouncy kid. I used to roller-skate into the sides of cars.

My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.

I'm in film school, so I really have to sock away my money for school, tuition, and so on, and I really don't have time.

My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues.

When you come from an environment that's military, and they don't stress that topic of aesthetics or beauty pageants and makeup, there are a lot of things you just don't have that city girls have. Or the country girl who goes to movies and dreams of going to Hollywood as an actress.

The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.