I am all about comfort and whatever comes along with comfort. I wear a lot of sweats. But Im also very preppy naturally.

There are two conflicting philosophies that I love: "Everything happens for a reason," as well as "you can change everything that you have control over."

Week-by-week you grow with your character and it's an interesting challenge.

I'm lucky; my parents have never said to me, "You're a kid, so you just don't know." They say, "How can we discuss the world and learn from these events together?"

I feel like there's no need to put on a heel that's too high. There's nothing cute about wobbling. There's nothing cute about not wanting to dance or walk somewhere because you're in pain.

For me, personally, Im usually not on my phone that much. I prefer listening to old radio shows and watching foreign films than tweeting.

I like to be in control of my body. Also, I love getting into character and exploring a different aspect of who I am.

I try to preface everything with "this isn't new." Because most social movements have happened before and I get that. Nothing I'm doing is new.

I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album Life Is Good, and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.

I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so its really confusing.

At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.

I think emotional health is a big contributor to physical health.

I felt that it was my duty not to senselessly waste my time. And since I didn't want to waste my time, I tried to accomplish as much as possible.

Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.

Producers are looking to me to concept full worlds for subjects to compete, play a game show in, win an award, blah blah blah.

If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If its marketed right, you'll buy it. But... If its real... you'll feel it.

Once something is a passion, the motivation is there.

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

One day, someone who'll understand your good points and bad points, but who'll love you just the same, will appear in your life. Mark my words!

That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.

Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without