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

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" 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. "

" Personally, I love denim... denim pants, a shirt, denim jacket - I'm good. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 am just a history nerd. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

" There have been moments when I was on a modeling job, and it was the most fantastic thing in the world. And there have been moments where I've realized, 'Okay, I'm ten years old, and I've spent the past six hours outside in the rain.' It taught me how to be specific about what kinds of projects I wanted to do and what kind of work I wanted to do. "

" Gender is a spectrum. "

" 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. "

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

" When you're biracial, you can feel like you're fully neither, not fully both. But I won't strip away my heritage for anyone's comfort. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "