In performance, you dont always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.

I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Womens Singles tennis champion in college.

It's exciting to watch people do and write and say what they feel like doing, writing and saying.

If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.

I'm realizing, you don't need to change anything about yourself. This is who you are, and it's okay. That's daring.

I love De la Renta. I love CoSTUME National; I think they're just incredible. And I love Marc Jacobs, too - they're also great, just a great brand.