Tisha Campbell Speaks On Light Skinned Privilege And Spike Lee’s Social Experiments Around Colorism

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Spike Lee, the conversation surrounding colorism, and how she interprets it. During the in-studio interview, the actress also spoke about the importance of setting boundaries as a blueprint to life’s success, and how she’s altered what she gives her energy to.“Not everybody’s gonna be happy with your boundaries,” the star of Martin and My Wife & Kids said. “There are a lot of people that don’t like the fact that I may have maybe isolated myself to only a small group of friends now, that I don’t give the way that I used to give of myself.

That’s okay. It’s not being selfish. It’s being self-full. It’s making sure that you have boundaries set in place so that you are not overextending yourself to everybody all the damn time.”Article continues after video.“For the first time in my life I’m actually giving to me first because I want to be the ultimate wife, or the ultimate mother, or the ultimate coworker,” she added. “And I would sacrifice my own energy, self-love, everything, to make other people more comfortable.In expounding on her new outlook on life, Campbell explains that her empathy may have served as a crutch and an asset.

Sometimes people mistake one’s kindness for weakness and try to take advantage of their giving heart. I was used to living for other people all the time, since I was a little kid,” Campbell stated.. “Everything was for everybody else.