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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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" I learned at Yale, one of the biggest lessons was to learn how special I am and therefore how totally unspecial I am. I was special among everyone else who was special. The fact that we're all so individual and that's what makes us special. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's great to have something to dress up for. You know, I spent three years in slacks at drama school, so now I like putting a dress on. "

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

" 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.' "

" The first time I cut all my hair off was when I was 19. I just got fed up going to the salon every week. I'd had enough! On a whim, it was off. It's low-maintenance. "

" The beauty standards had nothing to do with me in Mexico. It was such a bizarre, dire time for my hair. I was living in a small town where there was not any semblance of an African community. I'd have to take the bus to Mexico City to find a woman who could braid my hair. That was two and a half hours away. "

" I'm pretty awesome at making salad dressings. "

" I got teased and taunted about my night-shaded skin, and my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned. The morning would come, and I would be so excited about seeing my new skin that I would refuse to look down at myself until I was in front of a mirror because I wanted to see my fair face first. "

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

" To this day, I love eating steak tacos before going to the red carpets. "

" I thought I was going to school to be other people, but really, what I learned was to be myself - accepting myself, my strengths and weaknesses. "

" 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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" 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. "

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" My conscious life has all been in Kenya, and it's my point of reference. But going back to Mexico was very formative. "

" Human beings have an instinct for freedom. "

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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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" I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me. "