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T'keyah Crystal Keymah Biography

Nationality: American
Type: Actress

Born: October 13, 1962

T'keyah Crystal Keymah Quotes #1

With acting, I've always gotten by in life acting in situations. I'm a small person. I didn't have a chance to be a bully. But I could always act myself out of tough situations.

T'keyah Crystal Keymah

Tags: Life , Person, Small

T'keyah Crystal Keymah Quotes #2

There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.

T'keyah Crystal Keymah

Tags: Mother, Important, Learn

T'keyah Crystal Keymah Quotes #3

If I knew how to operate a DVR, you'd find episodes of 'The Tavis Smiley Show,' 'Democracy Now!' and lots of stuff from TV Land. What you can find now on my Hulu account are Korean soap operas, 'Grey's Anatomy' and films from the Criterion collection.

T'keyah Crystal Keymah

Tags: Democracy, Find, Show

T'keyah Crystal Keymah Quotes #4

I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

T'keyah Crystal Keymah

Tags: Time , Play, Tell

T'keyah Crystal Keymah Quotes #5

I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to

T'keyah Crystal Keymah

Tags: Time , Friend, Play

T'keyah Crystal Keymah Quotes #6

I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.

T'keyah Crystal Keymah

Tags: Movies , Girl, Someone

T'keyah Crystal Keymah Quotes #7

I have such a dancer's spirit that I tend to leap around the house. Once I leaped onto my bed and landed on the floor. But I danced more for myself than I did for other people.

T'keyah Crystal Keymah

Tags: Did, Around, Once

T'keyah Crystal Keymah Quotes #8

I don't remember ever deciding to become a performer. I just always was. I began performing by mimicking the performers on the new television that first took the attention away from me as the baby of the household. I continued performing to put a smile on my grandmother's face and always considered

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Tags: Smile , Ever, Remember

T'keyah Crystal Keymah Quotes #9

I am thrilled to return as Honorary Captain of the GREEKs for HBCUs Team. I reflect fondly on my days at Florida A&M University, and how visible and active all of the sororities and fraternities were. Membership in Black Greek letter organizations on college campuses is preparation for a lifetime of

T'keyah Crystal Keymah

Tags: Black, Team, Service

T'keyah Crystal Keymah Quotes #10

Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them. When I was a child, I thought about everything in the universe.

T'keyah Crystal Keymah

Tags: Children, Everything, Thought

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