Samkelo Ndlovu

"I’m always watching human beings and I wonder what it would be like to be them."

"I’ve always said that I don’t want any magazine shoot or interview to be about the sexualization of my female body. I’m so liberated now because I know that I’m taken seriously as an actress. When I die tomorrow and somebody asks, who is that? The answer will always be the actress. Not the girl with the breasts and dreadlocks. My strategy has always been to lie low."

"Educate yourself, pick up a book if you cannot afford education. Download scripts online and rehearse them at home."

"There is nothing sexier than a woman who knows what she’s doing."

"Do not down play your womaness."

"Push the professionalism and be bad a** with your talent.When you’re an actor, you’re a vessel and you need to be emptied out to be filled by another character."

"I respect the woman who have survived from the beginning without becoming tabloid queens and having their personal lives tampered with by the public. The women who overcame obstacles, came from townships just like I did and defeated stereo types and became the better few of the statistics of black female actors in South Africa."

"My advice to anyone is to find happiness in you and your God-given talent or skill. And not in people or things, because those come and go. And secondly, the journey to knowing thyself never ends so one should never stop finding themselves. You’ll be surprised what you find. Thirdly, do not be afraid of change, change is growth and growth is good."

"I specifically chose women and children because I could relate to the effects of systematic inequalities and patriarchy."