Jurnee Smollett has always been one of Hollywood’s most versatile and outspoken leading ladies, and over the years, she’s shared plenty of inspiring quotes with audiences everywhere. Her newest project, HBO’s Lovecraft Country, casts Smollett in yet another poignant, complicated, and socially relevant role: Letitia, a Black woman in 1950s America who joins her friend’s quest to find his missing father in a country that’s full of racist horrors and good old-fashioned monsters too.