Zimbabweans are so smart and witty and able to weave together tons of situations and experiences into terminologies that are just utterly original.

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.

I couldn't imagine owning beauty like my mothers. I wouldn't dare.

Don't consider my kindness as my weakness, the beast in me is sleeping not dead.

These passive prejudices were not necessarily from a place of ugly, but they certainly weren’t from a place of respect.

Scientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They're always responding to what is happening culturally.

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

Well if I could play like Wynton, I wouldn't play like Wynton.

Life is hard but being stupid makes it harder.

I don't like to drive. I don't like the aggressiveness that goes along with driving.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.