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.

Now, a lot of people may be surprised at that, but I'm very dedicated to working out. Usually, it's running. It clears my mind, totally. I get on the treadmill, which I just bought, and I run on that for about 40-45 minutes.

It's always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.

Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.

There's not one woman in America who does not care about her hair, but we give it way too much value. We deprive ourselves of things, we use it to destroy each other, we'll look at a child and judge a mother and her sense of motherhood by the way the child's hair looks. I am not going to traumatize my child about her hair. I want her to love her hair.

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

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.