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

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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 want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent

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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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I’m a black woman who is from Central Falls, Rhode Island. I’m dark skinned. I’m quirky. I’m shy. I’m strong. I’m guarded. I’m weak at times. I’m sensual. I’m not overtly sexual. I am so many things in so many ways and I will never see myself on screen. And the reason I will never see myself up on screen is because that does not translate with being black.

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

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

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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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