“At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just t...” — Yara Shahidi Quote

“At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.”

“Maintaining a sense of your personality grounds you in your space. I try and just make what I wear a reflection of how I feel at that moment, at that particular place in time.”

“On a personal level, I think dressing is such a form of expression, and when you do events, it's important to feel as though you are authentically yourself.”

“I am a very sensitive person, especially when it comes to heart-to-heart conversations. I am straightforward and I expect the same from people.”

“I never thought I'd see the day when the U.S. government could listen in on phone conversations or read private mail without first obtaining a warrant from a court. That sounds more like something that happened in the Soviet Union.”

“I love conversations, about anything.”