Actress Amber Riley spoke candidly about people trying to "humble Black women" and how she makes sure to demand respect.

Riley discussed how she and other Black women have to work harder in the film industry to get ahead, adding that she doesn't tolerate disrespect.

“A lot of people try to humble black women all the time. And I think it’s fine to be grateful, and it’s fine to walk through this world understanding that nobody owes you anything. I don’t think that anybody owes me anything, but I will demand respect because I respect other people,” she said, according to Page Six.

Riley asked people to stop referring to her as her old character Mercedes.

Earlier this month, Riley took to Twitter to ask fans to stop calling her Mercedes from Glee, People reports

"I despise when ppl call me Mercedes," Riley, who played the character from 2009 to 2015, tweeted, according to People. "Put some respect on my name. Call me AMBER or RILEY."

I despise when ppl call me Mercedes. Put some respect on my name. Call me AMBER or RILEY. It’s wild that I even have to say that. No shade to the show/character that gave me a career, but please stop this shit. I don’t answer to it, and if you do it facetiously I’ll block you.

— Amber Patrice Riley (@MsAmberPRiley) January 15, 2022

"It's wild that I even have to say that. No shade to the show/character that gave me a career, but please stop this s**t. I don't answer to it, and if you do it facetiously I'll block you," she wrote.  

Riley, 35, continued to explain the disrespect of constantly being called the name of a character she played in the past.

"I've done too much in my career to be reduced to one role," she wrote. "Whether you respect the work I've done or not, I don't really care, BUT basic human decency is to recognize me as a person and use my actual name. Boundaries."

HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show writer and actress Ashley Nicole Black responded to Riley’s tweet, asking, "Who we fighting, AMBER???"

"Life girl, LIFE!" Riley replied.

The actress also spoke about the challenges of being a Black woman in Hollywood.

During a recent interview with Page Six, Riley explained that her tweet came after someone had referred to her by the character's name.

“It’s really interesting to me, as the only Black character on that show, I’m the only one they do it [to]?" she said. “It’s the ones who are using Mercedes like a derogatory term. And I didn’t respond in the tweet to that person because I wasn’t going to give them any clout or shine, but they called me some very nasty things, and they were saying Mercedes like it was a slur.”

“Getting respect from people, you have to demand it,” she said during the discussion. “I’m an advocate for myself. I stand up for myself, and I speak the truth.”

She also spoke on body image in Hollywood, saying it’s one thing to be a Black woman, but being “a plus-size woman on top of that” has its own challenges.

“Hollywood is a very hard place to be in,” she said, according to Essence. “It really is. Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a Black woman, there’s not a lot of roles for us.”

The actress has turned down roles in the past that portrayed negative images of full-figured women. However, she said that having a great circle of friends who emanate positivity has been beneficial.

While the actress may feel a certain way about her journey to stardom, it hasn’t interfered with her love life.

Riley will be joining her Single Black Female co-star, Raven Goodwin, in the wives club, as the actress was recently engaged. She announced her engagement to husband-to-be Desean Black in November.

"There was a time when I thought I didn't want or deserve this kind of love," Riley wrote in now-deleted post, according to People.

"I'm looking at a man who changed my mind. My time by myself, loving on myself, getting comfortable with myself, prepared me for you, and prepared me for this," she said.