I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.

I'm realizing, you don't need to change anything about yourself. This is who you are, and it's okay. That's daring.

If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.

Ive heard of nothing coming from nothing, but Ive never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work.

I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something and then when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.

It's exciting to watch people do and write and say what they feel like doing, writing and saying.

My only want and wish, really, was to tell a good story. I wanted to do good work, tell a good story, and give the character a voice. Those were my only expectations.

I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

Faith is a big thing we explore.

I love De la Renta. I love CoSTUME National; I think they're just incredible. And I love Marc Jacobs, too - they're also great, just a great brand.

In performance, you dont always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.

Healing restores to wholeness that which has been injured or fragmented.

The universe does not have a purpose, but we do have! Our purpose is to re-shape this purposeless universe in a way that it will not be able to kill us!

What is this word that broke through the fence of your teeth, Atreides?

The most difficult thing for me is to take pictures from far away.

In our house, mother’s day is every day. Father’s day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn’t cut for us.

What is not ex-pressed is de-pressed.

I'm trying to make the world a more open place by helping people connect and share.

Large swaths of what we now regard as basic medical knowledge came originally from naturalists.

I think I have changed a lot. People might feel a little unfamiliar with the new me, but this is just who I am. I realised that I just want to be free.

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.