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I have the opportunity to learn about the fashion world, and I appreciate it as an art form... But I never want it to take over my acting.
It's so funny, you go to acting school thinking you're going to learn how to be other people, but really it taught me how to be myself.... →
I want to be uncomfortable - acting is uncomfortable.
We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.
What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.
Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. The shame doesn't even belong to us, but we still experience it because... →
My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I would tell this story about what school I went to... →
Growing up, I had really bad skin. I had a skin disorder. Yes, I did. And my mother went to great lengths to try to find something to remedy it. I... →
I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with... →
I give myself homework when I have an audition. I give myself goals, and that's how I check how I'm doing. It can be something simple like... →
My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into... →
There is something about acting that's mysterious and magical because there is only so much I can do to prepare, and then I have to just let go... →
Whoopi Goldberg looked like me, she had hair like mine, she was dark like me. I'd been starved for images of myself. I'd grown up watching a... →