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" I've loved the opportunity to learn about the fashion world and appreciate it as an art form, and I look forward to my continued education, but I never want it to take over my acting. "

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" I was part of a growing community of women who were secretly dealing with harassment by Harvey Weinstein. But I also did not know that there was a world in which anybody would care about my experience with him. "

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" It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself. Because it's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience. "

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" There have been rumors and rumors and rumors about my love life. That's the one area that I really like to hold close to my heart. "

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" 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. "

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" 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.' "

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" I'm still trying to get over the fact that my name is being mentioned with people like Brad Pitt. "

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" I don't need to be so full of myself that I feel I am without flaw. I can feel beautiful and imperfect at the same time. I have a healthy relationship with my aesthetic insecurities. "

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

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" It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience. "

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" We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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.' "

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" Whoopi Goldberg looked like me, she had hair like mine, she was dark like me. I'd been starved for images of myself. I'd grown up watching a lot of American TV. There was very little Kenyan material, because we had an autocratic ruler who stifled our creative expression. "

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" 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.' "

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" Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It... keeps us honest. "

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

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" I loved make-believe. I was the child in the cupboard playing with my Barbies. "

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

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" I had moved back to Kenya after undergrad, and I went through this crisis of, 'What is my life going to be about?' "

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" I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that. "

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" I grew up in the limelight and being the child of someone famous. So my relationship with fame is not bedazzled. "

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" Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands. "

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" What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture. "

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" I never understood who all those people are behind the actors! When you see them on the red carpet on TV, you go, 'Why does that person need such a large entourage?' And then you realize that every single person there has a role to play. "

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