“During the first show, I was like, “Wow, I’m onstage with Ms. Tyson!””

I was going to go to med school. My father’s dream was that all of his kids become doctors.

You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you,

Life is too short to do something you don’t want to do.

I’m in awe of how grounded Ms. Tyson is and how her performances can be different but the same.

She’s pretty amazing.

She can switch up the delivery, but it’s still with the right intention.

That’s what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

That’s how clueless I was. I just thought I could show up.

I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters.

I think L.A. is beautiful.

I grew up in New York and I’ve always lived here, so I look at myself as a regular person.

I have a Twitter handle, but I never sign on.

And I’m not sure if he [made his comments on Trayvon] because he was asked a question and he was trying to be diplomatic and neutral – that can’t happen.

My mother’s a pretty warm, open person.

I was reading the paper and saw a cartoon with Ray Kelly frisking Obama, and I was like “Wait, what’s happening?” so I Googled it.

I love that you can watch a film and 10 years later still be affected.

Woman’s work as a listener is never done. …

Often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

Humans call animals ‘dumb’… after they robbed their entire own precious world.

It means the US can’t borrow with ‘exorbitant privilege’ anymore.

Quite the contrary, in the Gulf, we see an increase in American military presence, as well as an increase in American investments.

Suffering belongs to no language.