Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

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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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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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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.

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We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

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Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.

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They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.

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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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Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

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Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.

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