Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.

True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.

I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.