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My grandmom worked as a maid for most of her life, and she worked in the tobacco and the cotton fields, whatever she could get.

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I don't see a lot of narratives written where a woman who looks like me gets to be beautiful and sexualized and upwardly mobile, middle-class, funny, quirky. They're very seldom written.

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I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we're complicated, that we are indeed messy, that we do our best with what we've been given. We come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.

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People don't understand that when you come into any theatrical experience, you've got to come locked and loaded, that you're a part of the experience, too. You can't come with your arms crossed. Be open to it.

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My grandmother's house was a one room shack.

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I'm the journeyman actor that you saw in one scene here, two scenes there. I've been eking out a living doing theater - Broadway, Off Broadway - film supporting roles, that I'm just excited to be a part of the conversation.

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I think women are very complicated human beings, and I think there's an oversimplification of women when you see them on screen.

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The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.

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That's always the biggest surprise when people meet me: how buoyant I am and how fun and light I am.

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I look back on those early days in the theater like the beginning of a love affair, when you're totally in love with the work, and that's all there is.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: August 11th, 1965

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