55 Quotes by Nafessa Williams

If I wasn't from Philly, I couldn't promise you that I would have the same drive and the same ambition because, as a little kid, I always saw myself as making it out, and I would escape with television.

Representation is necessary, and we all want to turn on the TV and see characters who look like us and represent us in some way.

I switch up between going to the gym or exercising outside to run around a track and the stairs of a stadium.

To come and turn the TV on and see Black Lightning trying to make a change and being a leader and stepping up, I hope that it inspires people within their own communities to try to make a change and to walk in their own superhero.

I think that's when life began for me: when I started to follow my dreams.

I graduated with all honors, and I was about to take the LSATs, and I was working at a law firm, and I hated it.

Sometimes you don't know what is it you want to do until you try it.

I tried to take advantage of what I could in Philly. But when it was time to move on, I moved on to New York. There, I booked a series regular role on 'One Life To Live.' I played a character named Deanna Forbes. She was my first big job. It was on daytime TV. And it was a great opportunity until that show got canceled.

I am African-American, and I am a proud African-American. I just don't like to put myself in a box and say, 'I'm an African-American actress.' I am an American actress, and I can do any kind of role.