Because of my job, my hair gets played with a lot on set, so I try to give it little bit of breathing space when I'm not working.

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world, and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.

I think, irrespective of your race, everybody has moments in life where they don't fit in, or where they try to puzzle through who they really are or to find the courage of their convictions.

But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it shouldn’t come at the expense of your self-worth.

Different fragrances promote different emotions, and I find that fragrance gets me in the frame of mind for that person.

I'm a multi-faceted human being.

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself

Hate will cause you to "catch a case". Release yourself from your own personal jail before you are put in the real one for life! It ain't worth it!!

How to uplift others. It’s not a pie, it’s a cake. It’s not a ladder, it’s a bridge.

Human rights and rule of law are inseparably connected.

I can tell you that God is alive because I talked to him this morning.

Every American may have equal access to ice cream, but there's no guarantee that the outcome of eating ice cream will be equal.

It's up to the reader to decipher the code, or the words, based on everything they know about life and emotions.

If you want to call me a bigot, fine.

Kind pity chokes my spleen.

Using governmental force to impose a vision on others is intellectual sloth.