I sort of feel like that's the most revolutionary thing we can do with our narrative for me as Black people is to show that we are just like you.

Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.

Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.

It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated.

I think that enjoying the fruits of one's labor is very different than arrogance. And when I was younger, I didn't know the difference. I thought that if you were gracious, that meant that you somehow were getting ahead of yourself. And I felt self-deprecation kept you balanced.

I think at the end of the day she [Rose from "Fences"] is a strong woman in the truest sense of the word. I think all of that is in the narrative; it's already there. The hope is there; the playfulness is there; it's there. I wish I could take credit for it, but it's there.