At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.

One of the people I've always wanted to emulate in pursuing that dream was Meryl Streep, in terms of the different types of roles she's been able to play and the number of different stories she's been able to tell.

I've always seen myself for who I am, which is a lot of things.

I just hope this [Emmy] is now a part of the status quo that women of color are included in the narratives that continue to write lead roles for us.

I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that's the one I'd be interested in redoing.

I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?"

We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.