Being pampered is great, but sometimes I like to do those things myself because it's a little therapeutic and gives me some downtime for myself - and I need that.

I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.

I want to touch the world through my performances on screen but also off screen.

You can go as far as you want to go.

As they say, real legends never die. Tupac is huge; he's an inspiration. Arguably, he's probably the biggest, most analyzed and loved artist of all time.

I feel like decades ago it was either youre black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.

I have always wanted to do something high octane. I've wanted to tackle an action role where I play a tomboy but empower myself as a woman.

I'm proud - or really more thankful than anything - for all the work that I've gotten.

Iraq is a fabricated state that has failed. It has always been a failure. It exists on the map. On the map, it has some borders, but these borders weren’t drawn naturally.

You thought you knew what food was, you thought it was elemental. You forgot how much restaurant there was in restaurant food and how much home was in homemade.

Any path to knowledge is a path to God-or Reality, whichever word one prefers to use

In code, it never pays to rush.

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

Vision is not political rhetoric.

Go to nature with no parti pris. You should not know what your picture is to look like until it is done. Just see the picture that is coming.

If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.

Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.

Adolescence isn't a period; it's a coma.