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" As a kid, I loved going to lots of thrift stores with my parents. There was a period where I thought it was embarrassing, and then I started to get older - I realized they were really cool. "
Cool
Kid
Loved
" Cultural change always precedes political change. "
Always
Change
Political
" 'Dear White People' started a conversation about race. It's such a difficult thing to talk about, especially in America because of our history. I love that you can confront it with humour and with satire. "
History
You
People
" Death is just a part of life, you know? It's what makes all of life more vibrant. It's coming whether we want to accept it or not. "
Accept
Death
Want
" Even while I'm really interested in playing female characters that are varied and interesting and dynamic, I'm not of the mind that you always want to play strong female characters. I think I just want to play characters that are interesting, and not all people are 'strong.' "
Mind
Think
Strong
" Fashion is a funny thing to talk about. I think what you wear is definitely an extension of you, but I also think it's totally arbitrary. "
Funny
Think
Wear
" I am multiracial, and I went through different phases - at one point, I listened to Wu-Tang and hip-hop, and then the next year I listened to Joni Mitchell. "
Year
Point
Hip-Hop
" I don't spend a lot of time contending with the fact that time is not endless. "
Time
Lot
Spend
" I eat almonds professionally, and I can't get enough of Yerbe Mate Cranberry Synergy Kombucha! "
Enough
Eat
Synergy
" I grew up as a kid looking at artists like David Bowie and Prince; I really admired them. "
Up
Artists
Kid
" I grew up listening to a lot of Massive Attack and Portishead. "
Listening
Up
Lot
" I grew up partially in L.A. and partially in New York. In L.A., anything goes because it's really temperate. There aren't any fashion rules dictated by weather, whereas in New York, of course, there are. New York is seasonal, and also it's a fashion mecca, so people are a little more aware of how they put things together. "
People
New York
New
" I guess I'm sort of just a glutton for having moments when I can just do whatever I want to, which sounds terrible. "
Whatever
Moments
Want
" I like to think I'm one of the least athletic people in real life. I don't do a whole lot when I'm left to my own devices except wield forks and knives. "
People
Real Life
Life
" I'm really excited about this generation of young women that can look at a screen and see some brown people in space. "
Generation
Look
People
" I'm someone that likes to not think too binary about human qualities. "
Someone
Think
Binary
" I'm sort of obsessed with Harlem. Just its history. My father did the music for a play called 'The Huey P. Newton Story,' and they did a lot of work in Harlem. So as a little girl, I spent a lot of time in Harlem Library. "
Girl
Work
Father
" I spent two weeks in Paris by myself. That was my first time in Europe. "
Two
First Time
Time
" I think, as an actor, when you're starting off early in your career, you're kind of just seeing what lands. But 'Veronica Mars' definitely primed me to look for surprising, dynamic women. It took me awhile to realize how cool that job was. "
Look
Women
Think
" I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do as by the things you do. "
Body
You
Work
" I think we just need to have a demand for fresh and nuanced movies. "
Fresh
Need
Just
" I think when any one kind of film does well, it creates a precedent and paves the way for more like it. "
Think
Way
Like
" I try to pick interesting projects, the kind of projects that I would want to watch. "
Interesting
Kind
Watch
" It's so rare to have an ensemble cast of women. "
Ensemble
Cast
Women
" I've felt this real need to ground my work in my ideals. "
Felt
Work
Real
" I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East. "
Born
Time
My Time
" I was gregarious as a kid, but I think the idea of actually getting to know people, I'm just shy. It sort of takes me a minute to want to sit down and talk about myself. "
People
Know
Think
" Media truly has the power to create and shift culture. "
Create
Culture
Media
" Norse mythology is mystifying and fantastic and totally confusing, but you can draw a lot of inspiration from it. "
Confusing
Inspiration
Mythology
" Oftentimes in films, the female character, if she's not the protagonist - and often, even if she is - feels like an imitation of what a woman is. "
Woman
She
Like
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