Quotes from Storm Reid

It's just surreal because I get to empower other little African-American girls around the world and say that you can be a superhero, and you rock, and you can conquer the world, and you are beautiful just the way you are, and your flaws are nothing, and you're awesome.

If you want to be an actress or an astronaut or a doctor or anything in between, I just want to let kids know - and especially kids that look like me know - that you can do it. Even though you're not seen, you can make yourself seen.

I just want people to be inspired - not only young girls but young people in general - and I just want them to know they can do anything they want to do, and they are beautiful, and they are smart.

I feel like there's this great balance between me being an actress and traveling around and doing all this great stuff but, also, me being the regular teenager, like going to Disneyland with friends and just hanging out.

I would love to keep playing roles where I get to inspire young women, and I get to uplift them and tell their stories and tell important stories that haven't been told.

I just try to take a positive approach with my social media, with my Instagram. I just want people who go to my page to kinda feel inspired.

I hope I get to work with Ms. Meryl Streep. She's so brilliant, great, and gracious an actress and person. I would love to work with her.

I just feel like, with growing up and having peer pressure and what society wants you to be and what you think you should do, I feel like it's really important to surround yourself around good, understanding, amazing people that actually love you for you.

I feel like I'm a really artsy person. I love to tie-dye shirts and bake and just do nerdy and fun stuff.

I'm gonna take this world by storm. Pun unintended.

To work with Miss Oprah has been amazing. To have her in my corner and inspire me and uplift me has been amazing.

I haven't been afraid to speak my mind with anything, and I have always stood up for what I believe in.

You should always be dedicated and know that, if you strive to do something, you can achieve it.

We just have to get over the fact that, yes, people are not going to be the same. They're not going to look the same, they're not going to have the same opinions because we're all unique.