I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.

I've always been extremely physically active.

I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat situations in a performance and Shakespeare plays where you have to fight.

If you're a fighter, you recognize a fighter.

I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write.

People with nothing to hide don't usually feel the need to say so.

I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them with ease. And then along came Obama.

My favorite TV shows are Orange Is the New Black, House of Cards, Modern Family, and Veep.

You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.

My assumption is I'm not going to be recognized. But when I am, I'm like, "Dang, you know who I am?" I always think I look so different.

Regret is good. It proves you have a conscience.

Prayers can be whatever you wish them to be. They can be short or long requests, expressions of gratitude and affirmations that your requests are being honored.

Make it large', life is a canvas. You can paint it to be 'a dot' or masterpiece it to be 'the universe

Kuwait is an origin, and her regulations are branches, so be devoted to the origin, the roots will be insured.

I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating.

To be rich in friends is to be poor in nothing

A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a scientific laboratory.

Build therefore your own world.

New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.

Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.