“I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it'...” — Yara Shahidi Quote

“I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.”

“When you are in the public eye as a person of color, you are given very little room to mess up.”

“Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.”

“When people stare at you, and you read about yourself in papers - at 13, it just got very confusing. I thought that if this is what it's like to be famous, I don't like it one bit.”

“Middle school left some scars, as I'm sure it did for many of us. When my body started to change, I felt a bit like I was living inside a stranger. People began responding to me differently, which was confusing.”

“Globalisation is happening so fast it's confusing for people, and tolerance is threatened.”