Agriculture is one of the biggest causes of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Cars? Planes? Trains? Nope. Cow farts.
For me, a big thing growing up was naturalness - both in being and appearance. My mom never let me relax my natural hair. For so long, I thought I was ugly, and I still sometimes struggle with that. But now I've come to feel like this is me.
Bad bread is the one thing I refuse. I need good bread.
When the Berlin Wall came down, my dad left to visit the U.S. He met my mom at this summer camp where they were both working, so I grew up between Washington Heights and Germany speaking two languages.
I feel like, every six months, I learn my hair or my skin anew and find a new thing that I like to do, and then I abandon it and move on.
I like representing different kinds of black people - showing they exist.
I used to work at Cafe Mogador in the East Village. I love Mogador, but I feel like working almost anywhere will kind of ruin it for you. There was a lot of panicking while being a waitress there. I don't like to think about that. But I love the food.
I worry about not being able to be myself day to day. But I know people way more famous than me who have been able to do that.
I think what happens with a lot of writing and art is that specificity ends up being relatable while universality becomes vague.
At home in my room, I'm funny, but if I'm commissioned to be that, I don't feel very funny.
I love babies. I also have this very deep desire to become a mother. I always thought that motherhood was my highest calling.
In the United States, if you're African-American, it can be assumed that your family has been here for generations. In Europe, colonialism is much more alive, and it's assumed you're from Nigeria or Senegal.
It's fascinating working with young children. You have to improvise around them, and they're moving around and doing stuff, and you have to be real with them.
I've had acting teachers say, 'If you want to do anything else but act, that means you're not an actor,' which I think is stupid!
I identify with my womanhood before anything else because that's what I deal with when I am alone.
I'm pretty picky about my hair, so I end up always styling it myself.
I've begun feeling that my responsibility is to the Earth. Our generation's war is climate change, so I've really been modifying how I eat and what I eat.
One day, I'd like to tackle a biopic. I grew up very influenced by Josephine Baker, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone.
I wish I was a morning person.
What I crave, and what I want to see on television, is when you see a minority character, not to have it being about them being black or Asian or Latino. If you watch 'Friends,' for example, it's not about a group of people being white. It's about a group of people being friends, you know? You should just let the characters exist.
