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" If you want to be an actress or an astronaut or a doctor or anything in between, I just want to let kids know - and especially kids that look like me know - that you can do it. Even though you're not seen, you can make yourself seen. "

" I just try to take a positive approach with my social media, with my Instagram. I just want people who go to my page to kinda feel inspired. "

" It's just surreal because I get to empower other little African-American girls around the world and say that you can be a superhero, and you rock, and you can conquer the world, and you are beautiful just the way you are, and your flaws are nothing, and you're awesome. "

" My mom - she doesn't care if I stop acting tomorrow; she just wants the best for me. "

" I think '12 Years a Slave' really helped me, as a person and as a student, to grow. "

" I hope I get to work with Ms. Meryl Streep. She's so brilliant, great, and gracious an actress and person. I would love to work with her. "

" I just want people to be inspired - not only young girls but young people in general - and I just want them to know they can do anything they want to do, and they are beautiful, and they are smart. "

" To work with Miss Oprah has been amazing. To have her in my corner and inspire me and uplift me has been amazing. "

" We just have to get over the fact that, yes, people are not going to be the same. They're not going to look the same, they're not going to have the same opinions because we're all unique. "

" Looking back on it, when I was eight or nine, of course I did see myself on TV, so in a way, I was privileged. "

" I just feel like, with growing up and having peer pressure and what society wants you to be and what you think you should do, I feel like it's really important to surround yourself around good, understanding, amazing people that actually love you for you. "

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" You should always be dedicated and know that, if you strive to do something, you can achieve it. "

" I would want to go back to the civil rights movement and see how that was. With the information and knowledge I have about it now, I would want to see how I would deal with it. "

" My schedule won't allow me to go to regular school, but I did love public school, and I did experience my first year of middle school in a regular school. "

" I haven't been afraid to speak my mind with anything, and I have always stood up for what I believe in. "

" I'm gonna take this world by storm. Pun unintended. "

" I didn't think I would be 14, or 13 at the time, and be a lead in a role, but I think everything happens for a reason. "

" When you're acting, you can try your own ideas and be free. "

" I was shocked that I even got the opportunity to audition for 'A Wrinkle in Time.' Meg Murry is a Caucasian girl in the book. "

" I feel like I'm a really artsy person. I love to tie-dye shirts and bake and just do nerdy and fun stuff. "

" If I'm wearing makeup, I always wash my face. Washing my face is a must. "

" To be able to be a good actress and portray other people's stories, you have to be true to yourself. "

" I would love to keep playing roles where I get to inspire young women, and I get to uplift them and tell their stories and tell important stories that haven't been told. "

" I never saw a little African-American girl saving the world. So to be able to be that for not only myself but girls who look like me is really important and inspiring. Unfortunately, we don't see ourselves saving the world a lot, and if we do see any type of superhero, that person usually has superpowers. "

" You're not going to be perfect, but the most important thing is not trying to please anybody. It's loving yourself inside out. "

" Representing young black girls and giving them hope and the light and letting them know that they can do anything is important to me as a little black girl, too. "

" I live by faith and not sight. "

" I feel like there's this great balance between me being an actress and traveling around and doing all this great stuff but, also, me being the regular teenager, like going to Disneyland with friends and just hanging out. "

" Diversity should be forever; it should be a normal thing. "

" I had a fear of being too tall because my dad is very tall, and both my sisters are very tall. And they're drop-dead gorgeous, but I just didn't know if I, as Storm, wanted to be 6 feet tall, 'cause I feel like that's pretty tall. "