I still live today with my mom sending me, you know, Hebrew Scriptures or phrases or celebrating.

Smaller incidents in my life made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.

I was lucky to come along for the ride. [My mother] really is an amazing woman. And the world we lived in in South Africa at the time was a very matriarchal society because so many black men had been removed from the home.

When you hear somebody speaking in an accent, it's almost like they're invading your language while they're speaking to you because if you hear someone speak another language, you almost don't care. But when they speak your language with an accent, it feels like an invasion of something that belongs to you. And, immediately, we change.

What the apartheid system was really good at doing was convincing groups to hate one another.

There are many people out there who don't even think of themselves as being averse to facts, but the truth is, they are not getting it.

I think any show has the potential to bring about social change. I do not think any one show in isolation can do it. I think it is a groundswell that needs to continue to be bolstered from all ends.