All Quotes

"seeing little to no representation of who I am never discouraged me"

"My goal was and still is to make people feel like they belong somewhere"

"Diversity means love of all people. The love of every difference, every skin tone, every personality & culture"

"Don’t let people break your spirit, mama. What you spend five minutes dwelling on won’t even matter in five years."

"I just want to be free and creative until I can’t be anymore!"

"WE ALL GET THE SAME 24 HOURS IN A DAY, JUST GO OUT THERE AND BE GREAT—WHATEVER THAT IS. BE GOOD AT WHAT YOU DO, AND STRIVE TO BE BETTER"

"I think stand-up is all controversial anyway and that's kind of the point of stand-up comedians is to be offensive and be weird and have opinions"

"A lot of music from some of our female artists is about relationships and can be a little whiny"

"I think, honestly, growing up was the biggest role I could have taken"

"I think having the creative outlet to express myself at a young age shaped me into the woman I am today"

"Sometimes I feel a little odd because no one in my life shares the same experiences that I do, but I hope that through my artistry I’m able to help people feel less alone in their feelings of weirdness or ‘too-much-ness"

"For us child actors, it can be really difficult to transition to adult material"

"In a lot of ways, I think songwriting can be more cathartic for me than acting because I’m really just sharing what makes me me"

"I just love being a woman and especially a multi-cultural woman where I’m able to hopefully continue to tell a wide range of stories that make others feel seen, recognized, and heard."

"The biggest legacy I want to leave behind is how much I loved and was loved by my tribe"

"So far I’ve only played characters who aren’t the nicest and are always the “mean girl” in some way, but I would really love to switch it up, take on more challenging roles and you know, throw in a splash of kindness here and there"

"Being placed in front of that camera, even as a little girl, I knew THIS is what I wanted to do. It was so familiar and comfortable to me"

"My advice for newer actors is to know your worth"

"Be who you are and don’t change how you see yourself just to fit in this business"

"Now you can go on Instagram and you can see a girl who looks like you who is killing the game and expressing herself. Just being able to see that is so affirming"

"I don’t particularly like putting forward an image of myself that’s too true to reality"

"The best advice i’ve ever been given was by my grandmother who told me, “The empowered woman is powerful beyond measure and beautiful beyond description.” And by my father who told me “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the world” he was reciting William Faulkner"

"My definition of happiness isn’t about what I do, or where I am. It’s all inside. It’s when I feel content, or I know who I am and what i’m about."

"when things get rocky or stuff falls through, it doesn’t change me, or my morals"

"Social Media is very important to me because with a growing fan base becomes a platform. A platform to reach out to people and touch on subjects that aren’t talked about as much as they should be. I feel it gives me a responsibility to speak for others and for myself"

"I learned most about my own voice on this set and the power it holds"

"We have a task ahead of us and we can go to the Championship to deliver whatever we can. I think we have the qualities and the players that can face all this countries – opponents."

"We are not going to underrate any country. We would play match after match and improve match after match."

"In our last tournament, we didn’t perform well so this is our chance to lift the trophy for the first time. Most players now have the exposure so I think with this preparation, we can lift the trophy."

"We still believe we can qualify so we are going there to fight and get the win."

"We are not out of it, just like they scored here we can also go there and score without conceding."

"It is not as if we are throwing sour grapes, just because we have lost. Rather, this is the fact and it is up to the organisers to do something about this. It is not good for African women’s football."

"We are hosting the tournament and our prime target is to win the title as hosts and qualify for the World Cup which will be staged in France next year."

"I have been talking to my colleagues, trying to motivate them that we can make a name for ourselves and the country."

"The line between cultural appropriation and cultural exchange is always going to be blurry"

"I think already, at age 12, I was like, Yeah, people are racist. Why are y’all surprised?"

"When I reflect on it, I don’t remember being very upset about it. I remember feeling that I don’t give a flying f**k what these racist people think of me. I think bigots don’t really bother me"

"A lot of my adolescence was defined by being here. I feel like the first time I really experienced freedom and autonomy was here, so I think I probably fell in love with New York and knew it was the place I wanted to live when I was 15 or 16. Then I had a series of unsuccessful attempts to move here that were thwarted by different things"

"It wasn’t until I started living in other places that I realized that growing up with the backdrop of a mountainscape is not everyone’s experience"

"Social media really shaped me and my generation and our ability to organize or express our thoughts"

"I have always had and continue to have a lot of disillusionment around social media, particularly now"

"feel really disheartened by the fact that there’s no infrastructure legislation to control and mitigate the amount of manipulation that is occurring toward the public by these private organizations and corporations who just want to make money off us and control our thoughts."

"I don’t think there’s ever been a moment where I’ve thought social media is not for me, because I’m obsessed with social media. I have three meme accounts!"

"I think that as a black girl you grow up internalizing all these messages that say you shouldn’t accept your hair or your skin tone or your natural features, or that you shouldn’t have a voice, or that you aren’t smart"

"I feel like the only way to fight that is to just be yourself on the most genuine level and to connect with other black girls who are awakening and realizing that they’ve been trying to conform"

"when people come to me and say, “I’m more comfortable in my identity because of you,” or “I feel like you’ve given me a voice,” that’s the most powerful thing ever."

"But I’m not tired of talking about hair in the sense of it being an empowering thing. I know when I used to chemically straighten mine, I did it because I wasn’t comfortable with my natural hair. I thought it was too poofy, too kinky. So for me, personally, when I started wearing it natural, it felt like I was blossoming because I was letting go of all the dead hair and all the parts of me that had rejected my natural state."

"I often find myself in situations where I am the token black person"

"Being an actor is one of the few professions where, as an adult, you get to play!"

"Though the intentions are generally excellent with respect to giving a voice to those who were too long silenced, the movements that came before us, in the past, perhaps had more weight"