My bathroom is filled with hair and makeup stuff and I play with it all the time. What the real lesson is, is that you can own your own sense of beauty. It doesn't have to be something you get from somewhere else.

I like to choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.

I think television is doing a better job than films in terms of representing people, but television is still not diverse.

Someone asked me recently, "Do you get sick of people asking you about your hair?" And the reason I don't is because I actually feel like you could chronicle my journey of self-acceptance through my journey with my hair. It's a badge of something bigger.

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.

One of the things I've realized is how portable God is. No really, He's everywhere!

If I'm going to show cleavage or chest then I don't show leg. I show one thing. If I show leg then everything else is covered up.