If you're an actress and even one person knows your name, you're lucky.

I really appreciate and respect the audience. People pay their hard-earned money to go watch you, so I feel like it's my job to give 100,000% of myself to what I'm doing.

I don't try to intellectualize characters too much. But I always think of the audience. I always make sure that my characters are likeable.

I'm black because that's the way the world sees me.

The older I get, the more I'm surprised with life. Things don't end up the way you think they will. Unbelievable and unimaginable things do happen, and then you figure out if you'll be able to step up to the plate or not.

When people have eating disorders, they can't actually see what they truly look like because they're so clouded with their emotions.

Once I finished breastfeeding, my mom's like, 'Don't take that bra off ever!' Mom, thank you. I wore a one-size-too-small bra for like, two years. It helps...! They don't fall, you teach them, you teach them to come back!