“Like, literally, when you get the script, you're like, 'Whoa, I hope t...” — Vanessa Morgan Quote

“Like, literally, when you get the script, you're like, 'Whoa, I hope the Black Hood isn't after me.' I guess we'll find out.”

“Growing up biracial, I didn't have someone to look up to watching TV or movies. Halle Berry was the closest one who looked like me. I'm happy to see more biracial people on screen, and I'm happy to represent for the little girls who didn't have someone who looked like me on TV.”

“I always know when my agents have good news for me because they conference call me.”

“I grew up in the hood in Miami in a poor neighborhood.”

“Visibility has an effect on those who are privileged; it brings more privilege, and on those who are marginalized, it brings more marginalization, because it also brings a spotlight onto them where they're at, in the hood or in certain places that are less tolerable.”

“I really, to be honest, thought baseball was my ticket out of the hood.”