I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get together with a jazz musician and play at a restauran….

I was the jokester, the one who made the family laugh..

There are expectations in how you play your character as a black woman, to be sassy and the same kind of feel, as if there are no quirky black women.….

When I was younger, my father was in the Foreign Service and we lived in Nigeria, Panama, and London, but for the most part I grew up in the South an….

I've been fortunate to work with Alfre Woodard and Jeffrey Wright; people who are artists, have careers, longevity and full lives. That looks good to….

I kind of feel like I have grown as just like a human being as a human being by being able to adapt and adjust and know that like you can't ever rest….

I think it's a great time to be a person of color and with talent. And actually, to be a woman as well. Our show is one of the most diverse televisio….

Stone Mountain, Georgia, still had Ku Klux Klan marches, and I had a wild and courageous mother who'd put us in the car to watch them. She wanted us ….

I was kind of a bully, even though I'm tiny, 5' 2". As a child, I'd boss other kids around and dress my little brother up, just putting on shows, sin….

My mom has an English accent, so we always referred to the trunk as the 'boot.' And then, suddenly, we moved to Georgia and I would say things like '….

Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated..