Quotes

We are happy to change and adapt even something so fundamentally important to us as language in order to start sinking into our new homes.

[...] that's what acting is. It's about telling people's stories as honestly and faithfully as we possibly can. It's being entrusted with a person and showing them to the world. [...] it's about the people we represent and making sure their tales are told.

One of the first steps to becoming an actor, after the realisation that people will always ask if you've been in anything they might've seen, is telling yourself it's okay to want to be other people. It's not that you don't want to be you, it's that you also enjoy not being you, and that's fine.

Whatever shade you are, bring your light, bring your colour, bring your music and your books, your stories and your histories, and climb abroad. United as a people we are a million majestic colours, together we are a glorious stained-glass window. We are building a cathedral of otherness, brick by brick and book by book.

[...] as a writer, you have just one task each day, one battle, and that is you against the blank page. Every writer should have just that in mind, nothing else matters, just that one fight is more than enough to contend with, each and every morning.

The universal job of being a writer is to write, to write with empathy, to be brave and honest, to find joy conveying a journey and in sharing your passion.

This shade I wear, this outer skin, this isn't a lovely natural perm or a lucky all-year tan, this is my past, present and future, this shade is my identity.

Through storytelling in the kitchen my grandparents gave me history lessons, a map and a time machine.

Most of us like to imagine our individuality is reflected in our style and reveals nothing about the system we as inextricably linked to, but of course it does.

[…] on a micro level, I think that whenever anyone questions your identity, you have the right to get a bit pissed off and on a macro level, what this questioning represents is problematic […].

I understood men were allowed to be reckless and hurtful, but it was women who'd get the blame. It was always women who were made to hide. Strange how something so banal and everyday had become so powerful.

[...] for me, there is no neat duality, no cleanly sliced elements of my identity that are in opposition. There is no hollow insecurity about rootlessness because those additional details and stories I've learned are additions to our identity, not loses.