“They’re probably not any more complex or interesting than their good, law-abiding cousins, and I’d always tend to see things from their point of view.”

I can read people, and if the other person doesn’t want to say anything,

I’ve always thought darker characters were more fun to play.

What is the key to life on Earth?

I have been in control of what Ive been doing, of the career Ive put together.

Listen, I have to spend every single day living with me, so I know for a fact; I’m lovely, I’m completely lovely.

I’m fine with that. People say things when it’s time to say them.

It is exciting to be off to a new land with a new friend.

I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious.

For me, now, working and children is it. Theres nothing more to life.

I come from a huge family and out of all 34 of my immediate family members, my heavier influences were women. Between my grandmothers, aunts, older female cousins, and of course my mother,

However, I was very conscious of the fact that both sides of my family were drastically different and my aunts, cousins, and uncles varied in different shades of brown.

My family has always had Cape Verdean pride but I don’t think it was something the kids in the family necessarily understood.

I’ve always been an actress, entertaining my family was the start. I’m a goof ball among many of my cousins and siblings.

I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.

From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin

I’ve got cousins galore, Mexicans just spread all their seeds and the women just pop them out.

Colonialism is the cousin of slavery.