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All Quotes by author - Yara Shahidi

" At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing. "

" Being homeschooled for half of my life allowed me to choose my own curriculum and find things I really enjoy, and that's kind of inspired me. I've always been intrigued in or interested in the topics I've been covering. "

" Fashion is one of those places in which, when you're wearing something that feels like a representation of you, it does create, in a matter of speaking, a space for you to exist. Even if it's just in a two-inch radius of where you are. It's a walking, personalized area in which you can live. "

" For me, personally, I'm usually not on my phone that much. I prefer listening to old radio shows and watching foreign films than tweeting. "

" Fortunately I can say that social media has treated me pretty well. I've been exempt from a lot of the mean comments. "

" Gender is a spectrum. "

" Having life experiences outside of acting is something my family has always made sure happens. "

" I am all about comfort and whatever comes along with comfort. I wear a lot of sweats. But I'm also very preppy naturally. "

" I am just a history nerd. "

" I feel comfortable putting my political stances out there without feeling as though I am filling some sort of quota. I don't have a wokeness quota for the day. "

" If you look at the history of art and fashion, it's always been political. It's always been pushing boundaries. "

" I go on and off home-school and regular school, but the kids don't treat me any differently because they've all known me forever. "

" I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too. "

" I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a school that is open and supportive of me being gone at times and pursuing acting. But school always comes first for me. "

" I know, ultimately, I want to help effect change; otherwise, I would look at myself in the mirror every day and think, 'What in the world am I doing with my life?' "

" I like to think I know a lot, but I don't. I'm motivated to learn more. "

" I'm double majoring in social studies - which is sociology, anthropology, economics, and philosophy - and African-American studies. "

" I'm louder and bigger with my curls. There's power in that. Also, straight hair is kind of annoying. It gets caught in my collar. "

" I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing. "

" I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5. "

" I remember my first actual intense breakout was when I was 13, and I no clue what to do because I hadn't dealt with anything in that large of a scale ever before. "

" I've always loved watches. It's been the one thing that I've asked for, whether it was every Christmas or a birthday. "

" I've always struggled with Hollywood feeling trivial. Red carpets aren't worth it. "

" I've been shy twice. Once when I saw Matthew Bomer and once when I saw Adam Levine. I couldn't say anything, literally. "

" I was in Minnesota, where I was born, and I did print ads and commercials. And that was always cool 'cause when you're little, you can only work two hours a day, and it changes. "

" L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A. "

" Maintaining a sense of your personality grounds you in your space. I try and just make what I wear a reflection of how I feel at that moment, at that particular place in time. "

" My friends always laugh because I'm the kind of person who bought the Brooks Brothers school skirt, even though it's not my school's uniform skirt, but just because I liked it. I'm a knee-high socks kind of person. "

" My mama is African American and from Wisconsin. My baba was born in Iran. My parents have stressed the idea of creating your own path, and creating your own identity is part of that. That's why embracing these two cultures is important to me. "

" Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role. "

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