I'm a really big believer in self care. One of the ways I nourish my soul is I eat the way I live my life - joyfully.

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

And it [acting] was exciting to me. And scary.

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

I was shy, but it came out in a big personality. My turning point was when I let my hair go naturally and I got contact lenses. I am really blind, by the way. I have these big eyes that don’t work!

You might be someone's favorite, but you might not be someone else's favorite. I will tell you that there was a [casting notice] that said "Tracee Ellis Ross type," but [the producers] didn't want to see me. I've been in this industry long enough to know that even if someone wants to promise me something, it doesn't mean that it's going to happen. There are so many things at play. But it was flattering and exciting.

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.