It's sad to have to leave your family but I like the idea of someone believing in something so strongly that are willing to find a new family.

Once women find sisterhood, there's nothing stronger.

Music and acting are the most prominent. But I don't like to compare them, since they're both very, very important to me.

I had talked to my agent a lot over the years about not being interested in stereotypical "black films" [because] I didn't like the way they were representing black people over and over and over again in the same way.

Women that look like me [the black ones] need to see more of themselves in social media, in film, in music.

I don't wear a lot of perfumey-perfumes because I think a lot of them smell like you're wearing perfume. And I don't want to smell like that.

That's the most important thing in art: to be aware, pay attention, be inspired - but it should come ultimately from you.