"“It was so nice to have someone embrace that and encourage it, because I never knew that I would start my career and …"

"“I like to play women who are in contrast to me. I think that’s how I look at it: What aspect of this character offer…"

""...I turned down a few projects to pursue this one. I knew there was a sense of what was expected of me, but this pl…"

"“As an African woman, I am wary of the trap of telling a single story… the chance to appear in Eclipsed after winning…"

"There was so much joy in the making of this film, despite the fact that it’s about such a sad, traumatic experience…W…"

"Don’t sweat the small stuff."

"It's because of the prevalence of whiteness, Eurocentric standards of beauty that we experience this. You know? And i…"

"I find a lot of gratitude in my first years on this planet because having to identify - or having to not rely on how …"

"Hunger is a defining issue for our world and climate change is worsening the problem. We must work to change this dyn…"

"“To me it felt like a question about our value system in this culture, the ways we define success for ourselves as we…"