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…

- Nicole Beharie

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…

- Nicole Beharie

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 …

- Nicole Beharie

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

- Nicole Beharie

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

- Nicole Beharie

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…

- Nicole Beharie

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 '…

- Nicole Beharie

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.…

- Nicole Beharie

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…

- Nicole Beharie