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

I am not a morning person, but I always work out - always.

I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color.

I would love to be remembered as a person who used her life to inspire others in any way, shape or form.

It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.

You can't be hesitant about who you are.

We know the road of lack of recognition, of people telling us that we can't headline a movie because black women don't translate overseas, that every time we try to break the glass ceiling, people say no, people push back. And it's everything that people don't see out there.