"I realised I could not only be a leader in conversation, but I could be one of the voices representing things that are near and dear to my heart."
"I don't think I'd be doing the work I'm doing if I wasn't constantly inspired by the other young people doing this work, by the other young people doing work I didn't even realise had to be done. I feel like we constantly educate one another. Because we inherited a world in crisis, we enter this world inspired to make change."
"My trouble with defining activism is that it tells you what it's not and activism is everything. For me, it comes through art: being intentional with the roles I choose, backing projects that are socially aware, or trying to push forward a progressive conversation and public speaking is another method."
"So much of my work is as Yara, not as a character. If you're attacking my work as a philanthropist or activist, you're attacking Yara. But because of Black-ish and this national audience we have, I get to have a larger or louder voice."