I started playing piano when I was around four; thats my first passion.

The reason why I like theater is because it's a long journey, and no matter what role you play, we are all in it together.

My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.

My mom was really busy when I was growing up, but she did a really good job in terms of balancing her home life with her professional life. She basically took me everywhere.

I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the first place.

The way I work emotionally is: I don't ever try to cry. I try not to, which is what for me produces organic emotion.

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

When I'm in Los Angeles, sometimes I hesitate saying that I'm an actor because people are like, "Of course you are." And I'm like "No, not, 'Of course I am.'"

My thing is that if you don't really connect to something or see that it's going to be something you're going to be proud of, I wouldn't do it.

Personally, especially as a young black woman, I didn't think that Los Angeles was a place for me to start. There's a certain type that they go for or don't.

My view of myself as an artist expanded because of the time I spent at Cal Arts.

I’d eat a picnic in Hades with him.

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

Being with you today is worth all the broken hearts of yesterday.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

I have yet to do a job where I would really get to rock the great clothes. I'd love to do a job where I could wear Thom Browne.

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

I always give homeless people money, and my friends yell at me, 'He's only going to buy more alcohol and cigarettes.' And I'm thinking, 'Oh, like I wasn't?'

In this universe it is Love that binds everything together. Love is the very foundation, beauty and fulfillment of life.

It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!