Women Are Allowed More Freedoms And We're

I Grew Up In A Family Where We Weren't Allowed To Talk About Beauty Or To Put Any Emphasis On Physical Appearance.

When You Are An Actor, You Bring A Tool In Your Craft But You Are Not That Person.

I Never Went In Thinking, "you're An African-american Woman, So You're Never Going To Win." I Was Just In Career Doing Beauty Pageants For The Experience, And To Show My Brains And Talent And Help Break Stereotypes. It Wasn't Like, "oh, I'll Become A Star. I'm Beautiful." I Never Thought I Was Pretty. I Couldn't Even Put On Eyelashes Or Makeup. When You Come From An Environment That's Military, And They Don't Stress That Topic Of Aesthetics Or Beauty Pageants And Makeup, There Are A Lot Of Things You Just Don't Have That City Girls Have.

Struggle And Survival, Losing And Winning, Doesn't Matter. It's Entering The Race That Counts. You Enter, You Can Win, You Can Lose .... But It's All About Entering The Race.

The African-american Community Is Not Monolithic. It's Liberal And Conservative.