I don't know if it's more acceptable or if black men are more comfortable. Black men certainly are more comfortable with it. I don't know that society, like white society loves it or black women. When you see a black man with a white woman there is a feeling that you have and I think the feeling is an instinctual feeling of you want her you don't want me. I don't look anything like her, so you don't like. You know what I mean? Something like that. It's a real instinctual primal thing.

If you're in love and there's that chemistry, that's what it's all about.

I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.

I'll eventually go back to theater because the feeling of being on stage where you have the audience right there, you can't replace that with anything

My dad is a director/producer and my mom is a dancer; she performed with Alvin Ailey, but I didn't even think about becoming an actress.

Chemistry on film is like chemistry in real life, it's either there or it isn't.

There's a lot of Kenya that's not like me. I like Birkenstocks, granola, my dog Pops.