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

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.

I think all characters that we play are facets of ourselves.

Dear men, Pay attention to the curves of her lips than curves of her body

I tell people, 'If you want to send a message to the White House, call my house.

Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on.

If Koboi defeats and presumably murders us both then you can consider the debt null and void.

You don't know this yet. But you are Mine - Wrath

I have the ugliest feet in the world. But even if I didn't dance, they would still be ugly. My toes are too big!

There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you're in Paris and you already miss it.

The world, even the smallest parts of it, is filled with things you don't know.

I'm also looking for gems that the average reader might have missed.

Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.