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

I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something and then when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.

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.

Ive heard of nothing coming from nothing, but Ive never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work.

My only want and wish, really, was to tell a good story. I wanted to do good work, tell a good story, and give the character a voice. Those were my only expectations.

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

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