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" I am very emotional about politics in a way that makes it hard for me to articulate things in a rational fashion. "

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" Every single laundromat, grocery store, everything is called 'Lupita' in Mexico. "

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" My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico. Then I moved back to Kenya shortly after I turned one, and I grew up in Kenya. "

" I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying, We don't have work for black women.' "

" I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it. "

" I was born in Mexico because my father was teaching at a school in Mexico City. I was born during the third year he was there. And when I was 16, I returned to Mexico to learn Spanish. "

" I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination. "

" As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally. "

" I grew up in a world where the majority of people were black, so that wasn't the defining quality of anyone. When you're describing someone, you don't start out with 'he's black, he's white.' "

" I was raised in Kenya, and I always wanted to be an actor from when I was really, really little, but the first time I thought it was something that I could make a career of was when I watched 'The Color Purple.' I think I was nine, maybe, and I saw people that looked like me - Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah. "

" I always love to learn new things. That's the reason I like being an actor. "

" I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile. "

" When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor. "

" I value not being good at things, because children are not good at things. "

" I come from a very close class. I lucked out because drama schools are often very competitive... I have fourteen classmates. "

" My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I would tell this story about what school I went to and what uniform I wore and who I talked to at lunchtime and what I ate, and my mother was like, 'This girl does not even go to school.' "

" I don't ever want to be president - let's just get that out of the way. "

" I have dabbled in martial arts all my life, since I was 7, maybe - tae kwon do, capoeira, Muay Thai. It's always been an interest because in martial arts there is a mind/body relationship. "

" I love filmmaking, but I decided to go to drama school because I thought that when I'm 60 and looking back on my life, if acting hadn't been a part of it, I would hate myself. "

" As human beings, we aren't as individual as we'd like to believe we are. And I think that's what makes acting possible. Despite the fact that I have not experienced something, I have it in my human capacity to imagine it and to put myself in someone else's shoes, and to take someone else's circumstances personally. "

" I have the opportunity to learn about the fashion world, and I appreciate it as an art form... But I never want it to take over my acting. "

" I grew up in Nairobi, which is the capital of Kenya, so it's hustle and bustle, and there's always something going on. "

" Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. The shame doesn't even belong to us, but we still experience it because we're a part of the African race. If it happened to one, it happened to all. We carry that burden. "

" One of the reasons why I went to the Yale School of Drama is because I felt that I was acting off of instinct, but sometimes that is not reliable. When you're not feeling it, what do you do? So, going to grad school was about getting the tools to just use my instrument to the best of my ability. "

" That's such a powerless place for me to think about: what is working against me. I don't think of what I don't have; I think of what I do and use that to get the next thing. "

" I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be an actor.' That's what I did. "

" I give myself homework when I have an audition. I give myself goals, and that's how I check how I'm doing. It can be something simple like 'listen,' or 'find your feet.' And then afterward it's an assessment, so in a way it's not about booking the job or not. It's about what I learned as an actor about that character. "

" Our business is complicated because intimacy is part and parcel of our profession; as actors, we are paid to do very intimate things in public. That's why someone can have the audacity to invite you to their home or hotel, and you show up. "