I'm interested in playing lots of different complex women.

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world, and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.

I think, irrespective of your race, everybody has moments in life where they don't fit in, or where they try to puzzle through who they really are or to find the courage of their convictions.

But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it shouldn’t come at the expense of your self-worth.

Different fragrances promote different emotions, and I find that fragrance gets me in the frame of mind for that person.

I'm a multi-faceted human being.

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

Stay motivated.

Once you become aware of knowledge and you are conscious of knowledge, there is no going back to the previous conscious state of mind.

If something is wrong with anyone, look first to the stomach.

Remember that you create your world. It’s not what happens to you, but how you choose to deal with it.

If I stop to kick every barking dog I am not going to get where I'm going.

Hope makes the impossible possible.

Socialism will be here the day we share our profits to the degree we share our failures.

It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]

Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing.

Learning itself is a fulfilling adventure at all points in the process. In fact, psychologists have listed learning as one of the basic, universal joys of human experience.