Amandla Stenberg

Growing up, I was always super into fantasy and 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'Game of Thrones' and all of that, but I could never find black characters whom I really liked.

As I started to explore my gender identity, I didn't know how I could claim the title of 'feminist' without subscribing to the gender binary. I thought I had to be a proud woman to be a feminist. Then I came to the realization that I can be proud of women without necessarily identifying as one.

I don't think gender even exists.

My sexuality's very fluid, and my gender is very fluid.

You don't have to force your career to happen all at once.

I hope people online understand that the celebrity culture we've created is not really real. So when they're speaking to and about me, I'm a person, so I'm going to make mistakes. It's inevitable because I'm human.

I'm really passionate about representation in film. I feel like the world is dominated by such a small group of human beings. There are so many different kinds of people that aren't represented, that don't have characters who look like them.

Everyone experiences different parts of themselves at different times, these different parts of themselves that come out in different settings.

One of the most challenging things for me to do was to walk away from 'Black Panther.'

I'm just someone who cannot fake it. I can only do something with my full heart invested or just not do it at all.

People are getting tired of the same material; they want to see black girls as leads in movies. And I happen to be lucky enough to understand that - and be able to grab that opportunity and run with it.

I don't think of myself as statically a girl.