Actor

I was homeless.

There's not many people that look like me in Scotland.

Yeah, we were refugees coming to the U.K. and I definitely now view myself as a Rwandan Scotsman.

If I can encourage people to stand up and take space and make noise, then I'm very happy to do so.

Those are my dreams. Buy mum a house, build a school in Rwanda. Then carry on making enough money to buy soaps from Lush.

For any parent, all they want is for their child to be safe and cared for.

I love Ghanaian food.

I went to school in a place called Dunfermline, which is in Fife - it's like the middle of Scotland - so I didn't have sprawling lawns of green and high school bomber jackets and an amazing clock tower.

The black gay experience isn't one that is often told.

My mom put me in this extracurricular dance class when I was a kid. And so I think that just started the creative part of my brain. That's what activated that.

Adebayo Oke-Lawal is so talented. He takes risks to make his suits different.

I thought I was the only black Scottish person in the world.

Hair in the black community is such a big thing culturally. The barbershop is a place for black men to socialise, catch up and bond. It's the same for black women in the salon. Going there is my favourite thing to do in the week. You catch up with people, someone comes around with food, someone else is selling something.

It was so normal for me to have racial abuse spat at me and then when I moved to Dunfermline, there were a group of boys who made up a racist social media page geared at me.

I wish that I had seen myself more reflected on TV when I was growing up, and I think a lot of people feel that way.

You make your own destiny.

Whatever journey you're on is fine. Take the pressure off yourself.

Just before I got 'Sex Ed,' I was going to give up acting. I was like, I have to put an end to this. So I was working constantly in the theater and somehow still just couldn't afford to live in London.

I went to drama school so I had quite a regimented classical training, regimented process of analyzing a script. I'll go through the whole script and highlight everything my character says about me, and in another color I'll highlight what other characters say about me, and I'll highlight all the things I say about other characters.

The world has been set up in such a way that we don't even realise how ingrained certain things are, like how much we live in a patriarchal society or how institutional racism is ingrained in how we see the world. We don't realise how many things are being set in stone, in our heads.