People that were a little nerdy in high school would look up to me and know it gets better.
We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.
I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.
A staple of my personality is that I want what I want - and Im willing to do without until I get it.
Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
Thank you for seeing me on the days when I couldn't see myself.
Any form of media is an opportunity to be a mirror and reflection of what we are experiencing more in the details of our life. What makes it fun and unique in a lot of ways is how that journey is changing just by the mere fact of the current time.
Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
Most nights I end up wearing a wife beater T-shirt and boxers.
Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange.
The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.