Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just... do. So you think, "I wish I could travel." Great. Sell your crappy car, buy a ticket to Bangkok, and go. Right now. I'm serious.

I think it's sad, and weird, and strange that [race in casting] is still a thing. It's 2013. Somebody else needs to get their act together.

I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up.

Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do.

Everyone always says to me, 'Why aren't there more people of color on television?' I'm like, 'Why don't you ask a bunch of people who aren't putting people of color on television why there aren't more people of color on television?'

Boundaries don't keep other people out, they fence you in.