KiKi Layne Quotes

KiKi Layne

Profession : Actress

Birth : December 10, 1991

Fashion is another opportunity for me to break through boundaries and to be seen wearing things.

KiKi Layne

It's not lost on me to have the ability to be wearing custom Dior or Gucci, with my box braids or my bantu knots. It's another opportunity to show that Black girls belong in these places and that what I naturally bring as a Black girl belongs as well.

KiKi Layne

The texture my hair, my skin tone; it does work, you don't have to change. But historically we've seen fashion try to change that: straighten your hair, thrown on a super straight silky wig, lighten your skin tone.

KiKi Layne

We all have those moments when you're sitting in your feelings and you're sitting in your thoughts and you're taking in what your current situation is.

KiKi Layne

'Beale Street' is such an intimate story that I think it requires intimate connections between the artists that are a part of it.

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If you see black people being portrayed in this one way well then, when you see a black person in real life, you're going to carry some of that way of thinking with you.

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Like, no, I can really be queen of the universe. I can be president. I can be, I don't know, an alien from Venus. Like you could just seriously... and that's the fun of acting.

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I know for me personally, I'm a person that tends to pull back from the people that love me when I'm going through something.

KiKi Layne

When you hear these stories about different cases of police brutality, don't even just make that person just another hashtag, another statistic. That is somebody's father, brother, sister, mother - be more aware of what that means.

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Aaliyah is my favorite singer.

KiKi Layne

The thing about tarot - maybe this to me is the difference between it and working with a psychic - to me it's clarifying the things that you already know. I don't feel like any tarot reading I've done or received was particularly surprising. They always speak to things that you kind of felt already.

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Most Sagittariuses start off really reserved. You gotta check people out, see what they're about, and then once we decide you're cool, then that's when we become super fun and really outgoing. But first we gotta make sure everybody's cool.

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My mom knew we were going to call me Kiki by birth. I think she had the nickname before she had my name, and she then found the name that would allow that.

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I feel there's a really raw quality in the Chicago theater community that's really special.

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It's important for me to not be put into any type of box because that steals the fun of acting. I want to do everything.

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I want a career filled with a lot of variety.

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I left before I had the opportunity to pursue work more widely in Chicago.

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I'm very grateful that 'Beale Street' was that opportunity for me to be introduced to the industry in that way and have some doors open for me.

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All of us can relate to when something happens in your life and it just completely changes it. Now you have to figure out how you're going to move forward.

KiKi Layne

My mom put me into a performing arts elementary school back in Cincinnati, so I started studying acting in school when I was seven.

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