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" One of the most amazing things about my job is that I have arguably, maybe not even arguably - definitively - the best boss on the planet. Shonda Rhimes is the best. "

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" I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama! "

Kerry Washington

Immigrants

Woman

Island

" I'm a person who's always been politically active and passionate about people's rights. "

" As a young girl, my real dream was to be the woman in the shows at SeaWorld. "

" Shoes define how you walk in the world and how you stand: like, what is your posture in life? "

" Before 'Scandal,' I was actually cast in two other pilots. Both went to series, but I was fired and recast. For both, it was because they wanted me to sound more 'girlfriend,' more like 'hood,' more 'urban.' "

Kerry Washington

Girlfriend

Sound

" It's interesting how much people long to fill in the gaps when someone in the public eye doesn't share their personal life. I understand their frustration. "

" You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is. "

" The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river. "

" I was really lucky because I went to an all-girl school, and that single-sex education really helped me because I really learned to bond with women and to not compete with or compare myself as much because we were all allowed to be ourselves and be unique and kind of have our unique strengths. "

" I learned through experience that it doesn't work for me to talk about my personal life. I've had earlier times in my career when I did talk about it. "

Kerry Washington

Talk

Career

" I think every girl should have a tailor in her phone. It's part of why we beat ourselves up, or why shopping is so frustrating and hard: we have this assumption that when you take something off the rack, it will fit you. "

" I really gravitate toward having all different styles in my closet because I feel like I always want to dress to fit my mood or where I am going. I do love Jason Wu; he is also a really good friend of mine, and I love what he is doing for Hugo Boss these days. "

" I always felt like my value was much more in my intellect than it was in my appearance, and so that's what I spent time cultivating. And some of that I get from my mother, some of that comes from the schools that I went to, and some of that comes from probably insecurity. "

" I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it's an American issue. "

" I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about black fists in the air, but they don't think about the actual people, and the families, and the relationships. "

" I'm always working. My cousins call me the longshoreman of actors. "

Kerry Washington

Always

Call

" You know what's funny is that I have this ongoing relationship with the city of Washington D.C. I went to George Washington University, and my nickname was K-Dub - based on G-Dub - and I'm now on the board of trustees at George Washington University. "

" I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race. "

" That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives. "

" When I read 'Ray' for the first time, I had just quit. When I read 'The Last King of Scotland,' I had just quit. I hadn't quite quit when I read 'Scandal,' but I was feeling really unfulfilled as an actor. "

" I guess because I came to it later in life, I realized, 'Oh, going to a fashion show is like going to the opening of Degas at the Met or going to see Swan Lake.' "

" Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen. "

" I don't think I consciously say, 'What would Olivia Pope do?' but there's a new thread of belief in my own capacity that I think comes from her. She makes it happen. She figures it out. She fixes it. "

" Being the one woman in the room should not be seen as a victory. If there's only one of us in the room, we're still a token; we don't actually have an empowered voice. If there's two of us, we're still a minority. If there's three, then we're allowed to have a multiplicity of opinions. "

" I have an amazing social media manager, Allison Peters, who is one of my closest friends since childhood. "

" I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera. "

" I bring something to the table as a woman; I bring something to the table as a woman of color. "

" I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know? "

" I like how people will post pictures of me with other women that I adore, hugging on red carpets, and say, 'See?' Are we so uncomfortable with love between two people of the same gender that we immediately label it as sexual? But I've never been bothered by the lesbian rumor. There's nothing offensive about it, so there's no reason to be offended. "

Kerry Washington

Gender

Love

" I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism. "