People automatically assume and expect that every moment and every bit of personal data should be broadcasted on social media, especially as it relates to them - and thats just not cuttin' it for me. If you can make it through the age of social media and come out with the same friends and lover, kudos!
I've had friends get mad at me for not posting what they think I should post on Instagram on behalf of them or our relation. I've had people question my "integrity" based off of something I didn't post on social media, the list goes on. It's mind boggling.
You just have to be careful because social media can begin to affect personal things such as relationships, just to pin point. People have become so entitled as it relates to social media.
Your life and everything about your world should be represented on your social media accounts, and everybody feels that way from family to friends to boyfriends and girlfriends.
You're living in a matrix that's driven by social media. It's become glorified. You're suppose to be what you portray on social media, thats the perception.
All of my close friends have been in my life for years. My best friends are all people I met in grade school, going back as far as 3rd grade.
I love to love. However, you won't see anybody walking the red carpet with me until I'm married.
I feel blessed to have had the accumulation of life experiences that I've had, life experience just adds to the depths of a persons richness, as with acting!
Honestly, being a part of any worthy life story is a goal of mine.
I was drawn into acting due to the fact that I could express myself better. I could use my voice - my entire body - not just my looks, height, and physical expressions.
When the passion isn't there, the drive isn't there and it just doesn't last for me.
I've always been an actress, entertaining my family was the start. I'm a goof ball among many of my cousins and siblings.
I'm just vibrant. I try to bring that to everything I do.
I know when to go and when to stop. I'm the red, the yellow, and the green light. That's me in a nutshell.
I was born and raised in Dallas, Texas and seasonally lived in New Orleans and Boston. Given that this was all at a tender age, I imagine I was very impressionable. I was a kid that was always moving, city to city, school to school. I adapted easily wherever I was, I knew how to blend.
I always say that you are who you are and you can't hide it.
It's always funny to me when people meet me. They really think I'm from the East coast off top. When they get to talkin' to me, they go "Oh no, she's sooooo Southern"
My family has always had Cape Verdean pride but I don't think it was something the kids in the family necessarily understood. However, I was very conscious of the fact that both sides of my family were drastically different and my aunts, cousins, and uncles varied in different shades of brown.
I think it's really important to teach our children about their lineage and it especially makes a difference if you share that information while they're young.
I acknowledge that we are all human and are on a journey. We are not born perfect, mistakes are inevitable.
All music now is influenced by Hip Hop. It's so deeply ingrained in the culture.
Actors don't act, we're just being in a different circumstance and scenario.
I soak up personalities and energy. I can identify with anything because truthfully everything that makes up the world is characterized in some way in my family I feel, so my empathy is strong for mankind in general.
I have a unique ability to mock everything. I'm a sponge by nature, thats what my environment made me.
My ability to adapt has always stood out. I've been immersed in many worlds and have had the influence of many things in my upbringing so I'm familiar with so many styles of living, so many characters, so many life paths and its just easy to simulate for me.
