It's great to know that young black girls are seeing themselves on TV as leading ladies, and I'm part of that. It's just such an honor.

I like seeing women defined by what they do and what they're passionate about rather than the men that they're in love with or associated with. That's always more important to me, as a female.

I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.

On a superhero show, you have to have people who are really human and who have the experience the audience is having.

I try and stay away from my comment section on Twitter. But for the most part, the response that I get usually is very positive - and so it's nice.

I don't really dig for answers from the producers and writers that much. I let things happen the way they're going to happen.

The message of Christmas is a message of hope when all other such messages created by men can do nothing more than be hopeful.

Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive.

The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.

I think a film is a failure if it doesn't have an emotional effect. That's the film's failure. Not if it doesn't deliver a message, but if it doesn't have emotional effect or visceral effect.

I appreciate that something I've done has found a safe place to land.

When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out

The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.

By revolution we become more ourselves, not less.

I think I felt God's love the deepest when I experienced my deepest loss. Amazing how God does that!

The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.