"“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…"

"I was completely overwhelmed…The body registers stress, whether good or bad, in the same way. So if it’s super exciti…"

"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…"