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"I think it was a coincidence. She was going out and I was coming in. I think it all just happened at the right time. Tyra's amazing. She said on her talk show that she was passing the torch down, and that was a bit overwhelming! I was like, "Excuse me. Don't say that! You're Tyra Banks!" Those are some pretty big shoes. It's amazing and it's an honor. Sometimes, people, they do the similarity thing: she's Tyra Banks and I'm Selita Ebanks. This whole thing has just been a coincidence. It's crazy."

"My father is Jamaican and my mother is from The Cayman Islands. I think that's where my exotic [look] comes from: Caymanians. They are Irish, African and Indian. It's funny because when you go there and try to see what a Caymanian really looks like, you can never really pinpoint it, because we are all so different. But we all have the traditional big forehead"

"I came from almost nothing and if I can do it [other people] can too. If you have a dream it can happen"

"There is only room for a certain amount of black actresses in this industry, I don't want to fall into the zone of playing the 'ghetto bootalicious baby mama drama,' I want to play something with depth, like a crackhead or something." (On Acting)

"I was having dinner with my former fiancé [rapper and actor Nick Cannon], and he was chewing really loudly. Just smack, smack, smack, going crazy. So I looked over at him with a straight face and said, "How's the food? Because the soundtrack is dope."

"They lift the leg, so you can see my calves and thigh muscles. The higher the better for me." (On High Heels)