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.
Uzo AdubaIf they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.
Uzo AdubaI 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.
Uzo AdubaI kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
Uzo Aduba