91 Quotes by Jurnee Smollett-Bell

The Underground Railroad, which was the first integrated civil rights movement, is a part of our history that not a lot of us know about. And it's actually a very empowering side of our history.

I'm a research queen.

I love to get in the library and just spend days researching characters.

Marian Wright Edelman is a mentor and hero of mine.

I can get a little scattered and want to be everywhere and want to do everything for everyone.

Henry Louis Gates is such a wealth of knowledge in himself.

Before being a mom, I remember going on a Twitter rant during the whole George Zimmerman trial in Florida about my younger brothers and how one day I'll be the mom of a black son.

There's this notion, kind of like unspoken, that you can't live your dreams and be a mom. You can't have a career and be a mom. There's still that preconceived notion, and I reject that.

I have a complex heritage: my mom is African American, and my dad is Jewish. Both were activists, and they met during the movement in the '70s.