I just feel like, with growing up and having peer pressure and what society wants you to be and what you think you should do, I feel like it's really important to surround yourself around good, understanding, amazing people that actually love you for you.

I would want to go back to the civil rights movement and see how that was. With the information and knowledge I have about it now, I would want to see how I would deal with it.

Looking back on it, when I was eight or nine, of course I did see myself on TV, so in a way, I was privileged.

If you want to be an actress or an astronaut or a doctor or anything in between, I just want to let kids know - and especially kids that look like me know - that you can do it. Even though you're not seen, you can make yourself seen.

My childhood memories include a time when the government confiscated my family's possessions and exiled us to a camp in the B.C. Interior, just because my grandparents were from Japan.

I come from a family where some nights you don't know where food's going to come from. There's nights where you're going to have go to bed hungry.

I don't know any woman who has a simple relationship with their mother or with their daughter.

My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.