There's not one woman in America who does not care about her hair, but we give it way too much value. We deprive ourselves of things, we use it to destroy each other, we'll look at a child and judge a mother and her sense of motherhood by the way the child's hair looks. I am not going to traumatize my child about her hair. I want her to love her hair.

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Creativity only resonates if you infuse real life into the work.

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I don't have any time to stay up all night worrying about what someone who doesn't love me has to say about me.

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I don’t want anyone putting any limits on me.

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All you really need to do is shift people just a tiny bit for change to happen. It doesn't have to be huge and humongous.

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Relationships change us and make us grow.

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It would be great to bust through and make history. But what's more important is the opportunity to continue to get roles that are complicated and wonderful, to be a part of the narrative and to get to do what our counterparts are able to do. It doesn't just stop at holding an award.

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When you pray, God puts people in your life to lead you when you cannot lead yourself.

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Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. And I think that's a powerful message in this time of political strife.

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And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.

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