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

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

" The more you learn about someone, how could you not want to protect them and their rights? The more you learn about a culture or a certain identity, it's hard to not feel empathy. "

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

" On a personal level, I think dressing is such a form of expression, and when you do events, it's important to feel as though you are authentically yourself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I am just a history nerd. "

" What modeling taught me at a young age was how to say 'no,' which is something girls - we're not always good at saying 'no.' We want to be nice, and then we forget to look out for ourselves. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One thing that used to worry me is the fact that it seemed like Harvard was this big scary thing where I would have to spend all my time studying just to get in. But getting to go to both campuses of Harvard and Oxford and getting to meet some of the professors was absolutely amazing. "

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

" When we moved to L.A., I started going out for more commercials, and then one day they emailed me a movie script. The first thing I said was, 'No way. I love commercials.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" When you are in the public eye as a person of color, you are given very little room to mess up. "

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

" One thing I've always been concerned about is the objectification of women in ads, and that's one thing where I was like, 'Well, if I become a part of advertising, I could change that.' "

" 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. "

" Quite honestly, I'm the kind of person to get my feelings hurt over something somebody said on Twitter. "

" 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. "

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

" Personally, getting into college was a big deal because I realized it's probably one of the only things I've fully planned. The rest of my life has been, for the most part, a nice little happy accident. I'm glad that it happened this way, but it's nonetheless unintentional. "

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

" When you're a part of any protected class, whether it is being a woman, a person of color, a part of the LGBTQ community, or an immigrant, we're expected to get everything right and be the embodiment of perfection when it is not expected of other people. "

" 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. "

" Gender is a spectrum. "

" 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. "