Relationships change us and make us grow.

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

[I listen to] "Uptown Funk", Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress - I listen to that.

I had several teachers who inspired me, in both the public school system and the Upward Bound program. I needed several, because I lived in such abject poverty and dysfunction. And they're still in my life today, because I consider them to be friends, actually.

That's why there's so much bad acting out there, because you could see actors watching themselves.

I've done a really bad job with teaching daughter to put on makeup, but I have taught her how to put on lipstick.

I can't speak for the Kathryn Stockett, but I would guess that she feels proud of the progress the South has made because, growing up, she experienced a very different Mississippi than the one that exists today.