Tessa Thompson

I am multiracial, and I went through different phases - at one point, I listened to Wu-Tang and hip-hop, and then the next year I listened to Joni Mitchell.

I eat almonds professionally, and I can't get enough of Yerbe Mate Cranberry Synergy Kombucha!

I try to pick interesting projects, the kind of projects that I would want to watch.

I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East.

I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do as by the things you do.

I think when any one kind of film does well, it creates a precedent and paves the way for more like it.

The truth is, no, we don't live in a post-racial state anywhere in America, and this is particularly true in Hollywood.

Fashion is a funny thing to talk about. I think what you wear is definitely an extension of you, but I also think it's totally arbitrary.

As a kid, I loved going to lots of thrift stores with my parents. There was a period where I thought it was embarrassing, and then I started to get older - I realized they were really cool.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

I'm sort of obsessed with Harlem. Just its history. My father did the music for a play called "The Huey P. Newton Story", and they did a lot of work in Harlem. So as a little girl, I spent a lot of time in Harlem Library.