Each role has its own different challenges.

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When your passion and drive are bigger than your fears, you just dive.

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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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I think sometimes you have to see a physical manifestation of your dream. Otherwise you have to hope, pray and try to conjure something in your mind to feel like it's possible.

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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.

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I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent

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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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I think that you always want to gravitate towards people who absolutely are great at what they do and go for authenticity.

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I was like, 'What is this?' Until I found out it was stress related. That's how I internalized it. I don't do that anymore. My favorite saying in the world is, 'The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.' I am telling you, I have spent so much of my life not feeling comfortable in my skin. I am just so not there anymore.

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Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.

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