If you see black people being portrayed in this one way well then, when you see a black person in real life, you're going to carry some of that way of thinking with you.
Like, no, I can really be queen of the universe. I can be president. I can be, I don't know, an alien from Venus. Like you could just seriously... and that's the fun of acting.
I know for me personally, I'm a person that tends to pull back from the people that love me when I'm going through something.
Aaliyah is my favorite singer.
Most Sagittariuses start off really reserved. You gotta check people out, see what they're about, and then once we decide you're cool, then that's when we become super fun and really outgoing. But first we gotta make sure everybody's cool.
My mom knew we were going to call me Kiki by birth. I think she had the nickname before she had my name, and she then found the name that would allow that.
It's important for me to not be put into any type of box because that steals the fun of acting. I want to do everything.
I want a career filled with a lot of variety.
I'm very grateful that 'Beale Street' was that opportunity for me to be introduced to the industry in that way and have some doors open for me.
All of us can relate to when something happens in your life and it just completely changes it. Now you have to figure out how you're going to move forward.
My mom put me into a performing arts elementary school back in Cincinnati, so I started studying acting in school when I was seven.
It's just always been in my heart to perform.
I'm not one of those people that's like, 'I'm about to serve on this Whitney Houston song at like 2 A.M.' No. Karaoke? I'm just like, 'Live your best life.' We're not worried about those notes, we just living.
Who do I have a cinematic crush on? I mean, it's such a go-to: Michael B. Jordan. I was like, it's everybody's go-to. Who else?
I think especially when depicting young love, so often we see young love where you're just all about this other person, where you're willing to do everything, anything, wherever they need you to be.
I used to have really bad acne and so there's a cream and a gel that I use.
I want to have the kind of career in which I'm accomplished and respected enough that I'm able to open doors for other people, especially those who look like me. That's what happiness and success could look like for me.
An unlikely source of inspiration? My nieces and nephews. I feel encouraged to keep going because I know that if I keep going, then I can tell them to keep going.
I'm definitely a person, even when I need help, I got to be going through it to finally ask for help.
Some things shoot in Chicago, but even those things that shoot there still cast their bigger roles in L.A. or New York.
