Quotes about "Time & Aging"

There's no sustenance in the past. ”

At the age of five, of six, at the age of seven, I used to begin weeping sometimes without warning, simply for the sake of weeping, my eyes open wide to the sun, to the flowers... I wanted to feel an immense grief inside me, and it came. ”

I have had issues in the past with the characters and the limitations of the characters and the structure of the narratives given to me as a woman of color. ”

The big 'Aha!' moment is that the trauma never goes away. ”

What excites me is just taking some time to breathe in life. The mundane is very exciting. ”

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

That's why I do what I do, and that's why I wanted to be an actress from the time I was six years old. If I can't effectively move people, then I would prefer not to do it. ”

I feel that confidence in women - especially young girls of color - but women, in general, is so important. It is so important for us to arm ourselves and become powerful at a very young age. ”

It feels like my hard work has paid off, but at the same time, I still have the impostor, you know, syndrome. I still feel like I'm going to wake up, and everybody's going to see me for the hack I am. ”

Can I just tell you, I think it's the most beautiful thing about young people today, it gives me so much hope for the future, that they don't really recognize race the way my generation does. ”