Jasmine Guy

“I've always been drawn to complex characters. I don't want to play the same note all the time.”

“The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.”

“I love 'A Different World' because it was a family. We were all friends.”

“I think it's important for us as a people to see ourselves in all our glorious colors.”

“Whitley Gilbert taught me how to be a woman. I was a girl when I started that show.”

“You have to be willing to be bad at something to be good at it.”

“I don't think I've ever been a classic beauty. I've always had a character face.”

“We need to tell our own stories. If we don't, someone else will, and they'll get it wrong.”

“You don't just go to a historically black college and not be political.”

“Fame is a beast. I've seen it chew people up and spit them out.”

“I'm very proud of being a part of 'A Different World'. It was a show that was for us, by us.”

“Dance is the hidden language of the soul.”