Don't send me your script if you want me to play the black best friend; I just won't do that.

I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.

One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.

You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.

If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or a few videos on Youtube, and you're good.

I don't have a tailor, but I do love clothes.

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.

I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in the USA is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery and the injustices of segregation and racism generally.

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.

People haven't always been there for me but music always has.

Embrace courageously the challenging beauty of life.

Be mindful of those who take credit for your success or blame you for their failures.

Human Rights directs my path"~ ~ Minnie Estelle Miller 2011

"With ev'ry pleasing, ev'ry prudent part, Say, what can Chloe want?"-She wants a heart.

Friendship with oneself is all important.

Yes Rosalie, we all know how proficient of an assassin you are.

A girl doesn't need a guy in her life in order to act like a complete idiot. Certainly I, at least, never have.

David [Beckham] should think that talking is silver, but being quiet is golden.

Googling yourself is maybe one of the worst things you can do. I did it once, and someone had to talk me off a ledge.