I love to see how far you're able to go, both in skills but also emotionally how far I can push myself.

You can hear a hundred nice words about yourself, and you'll only remember the one bad one.

Everyone surrounding you has gone through similar things. The search for love or the desire to have a family or the loss of a child.

I do work very hard. I have been very colored by that education. I spent six days a week, seven hours a day training. That will always be the foundation of my work.

People can relate to reading a book for the first time and the world starts to create, even without you prepping for it.

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

You always want to translate as much emotion as you can, even if it's broader with bigger emotions.

I was able to actually combine dance and acting, which was a dream come true.

I never really feel like I'm sure a film's gonna happen until I'm maybe halfway through.

I love when I am outside my comfort zone.

I love New York, and I would love to try to live here for a while if I ever got the chance, but it's also extremely hectic. I don't think I would cope with that.

I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list

Read a different Africa. Love a vibrant Africa.

The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.

Every solution breeds new problems.

I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.

The goal for me is to have one track just flow into the next one and you can just get lost in it. I try to find that fluidity.

General rules will bear hard on particular cases.

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.

The best thing is to realize that you are who you are and you gotta work with what you got.