Samira Wiley : (2)

" I want to make sure that any young person or anyone, really, who is looking up to me – who sees a glimpse of who I am as a person – that they see no shame, that they see pride, and that I’m truly unabashed about the person that I am. " - Samira Wiley

" There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, ‘Ego Tripping,’ and it was just different from everyone else’s. It wasn’t flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, ‘She’s making me feel things. I want to do that.’ " - Samira Wiley