My aim is just to remain as humble and as godly as I can be.

Letitia Wright

Categorized in : Just Humble I Can Aim

I'm centered in who I am, and I'm really grateful. I'm not perfect.

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I'm not perfect. As a Christian, you're not perfect, you know, but you're walking every day and trying to stay connected.

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I don't come from a creative background. I don't know anyone in my family who is a musician or actor or singer. It's a lot of teachers, lawyers. Professional stuff like that.

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I didn't see a lot of role models or women who looked like me on screen when I was growing up. For me, one thing that changed all of that was seeing Keke Palmer in 'Akeelah and The Bee.' That film made me realize that I wasn't an alien.

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I think the more open-minded people we have - like casting directors and producers - the better things are going to be.

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When I was a kid, people bullied me about my weight and being skinny. Throughout my teenage years, I had to just depend on the fact that, look, this is who God created me to be, so I'm going to depend on what's already there.

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I fell in love with Jesus, and I'm still in love. Amen!

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My approach is the truth and aiming for the truth.

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I would love to be producing movies, acting in more movies, and doing projects that are Oscar-worthy... have kids, be married, all that, being a normal human being as well, balancing it all out.

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I still have a lot to prove within the industry as a young person in the Marvel Universe.

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Makeup is cool. I mean, you can turn up and feel really good and treat yourself, but it shouldn't be something you hang on to to validate your beauty or something you have to do to make you feel beautiful.

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If I want to put makeup on, then, cool, I'll do that. But it's not going to be my crutch.

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I was born in Guyana, South America.

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That's something I would love to do - play leading roles and really hold it on my own in those leading roles.

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I'm not trying to be famous, I'm not trying to be the next whatever. I'm just trying to be someone that contributes positivity with my talent.

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So many young black women love science, technology, engineering, and maths. But that's not the widely held image of the kind of person who likes those things.

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In my country where I was born, Guyana, we push more for education. It's more being a lawyer, doctor, teacher, or scientist.

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It was cool to play an African princess who's the smartest in the whole world. That never happens. So I hope all the young girls can feel smart, too.

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I wish I watched movies like 'Hidden Figures' when I was a kid, and maybe I would've taken science classes super seriously, because I saw myself.

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I'm really proud of the Time's Up movement, and I hope it continues and it grows stronger and that it can really be established.

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