"Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes."

"I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still."

"Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said."

"I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right."

"To love deeply is to give someone the power to heal what words cannot reach. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The paradox of freedom is that the simplest acts of love resonate the loudest."

"That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me."

"A courageous heart knows that the simplest acts of love resonate the loudest."