“No matter how much talent and drive I had, I know that I could not hav...” — Michaela DePrince Quote

“No matter how much talent and drive I had, I know that I could not have made it without the parents who adopted me and encouraged me to make my way.”

“When I was younger, it was hard for me to get roles just because of my color.”

“I find beauty in the way somebody uses their hands when they're dancing or the way somebody looks at you when they're talking to you. That's beauty to me. And beauty is just being truthful and honest.”

“The friend that I based Heffer on was adopted, and it all played into his total personality.”

“Indeed, the very first resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations - adopted unanimously - called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.”

“Religions have always adopted rich symbolic languages to signify the different aspects of their respective forms of faith and mythology.”