Why am I beating my hair up? Because I want it to look like something that it isn't? These are questions that I've been pondering my whole life.

Throughout high school, I was obsessed with magazines. I used to just comb through them and plaster things on my wall.

I felt like it was a courageous show [Black-ish] from the beginning. We are a black family - we're not a family that happens to be black. But the show is not even about us being black. The show is about us being a family. That is groundbreaking - on TV, the black characters either happen to be black or they're the "black character," where everything they say is about being black. I think that's the genius.

I want to be awake. I want to choose kindness, live & let live. I want joy, gratitude, and peace today.

I hope they look at me and think, 'That lady looks like she accepts herself'.

This woman [Bow] was not simply a reflection of who her husband was. She was her own whole self. And even if we weren't exploring life through her eyes, when we did see her it was clear that she had a full life.

There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate.