- Ellis
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first three words of our constitution: We the people. I love that phrase so much. Throughout our country's history, we've expanded the meaning of that phrase to include more and more of us. That's what it means to move forward.
- Grandmothers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.
- Instrument
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.
- Courage
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You see the transformation that the arts have on young people. It changes their lives for the better. That's where my engagement is.
- Pretending
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making the unbelievable believable is different on a set with 'Fantastic Four,' where it's like, 'Wind machines! Because the airship is coming in and you're pretending to be afraid!'
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think most people, when they think about the Black Panther Party, they think in very abstract, caricatured terms. They think about black fists in the air, but they don't think about the actual people, and the families, and the relationships.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like any single woman of color who's been onstage has a Shakespeare monologue in her back pocket, and a monologue from 'For Colored Girls.' It's just part of what you should have, as a woman of color.
- Camera
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The breakdown of the black community, in order to maintain slavery, began with the breakdown of the black family. Men and women were not legally allowed to get married because you couldn't have that kind of love. It might get in the way of the economics of slavery. Your children could be taken from you and literally sold down the river.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know what's funny is that I have this ongoing relationship with the city of Washington D.C. I went to George Washington University, and my nickname was K-Dub - based on G-Dub - and I'm now on the board of trustees at George Washington University.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if people don't think I am sexy enough for film at 40, I'll still be acting.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me.
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't just come home from school and watch TV everyday, they had me involved in lots of local theatre. I was a very dramatic, talkative child. And that was part of my mother's creative solution - to put me in workshops and classes and children's theatre programmes.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it's an American issue.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him - it was illegal for them to be married in several states in this country. So if we start making it okay that certain people can marry and other people can't, it's a slippery slope of civil rights. Who knows who is going to be allowed to marry or not marry next.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020