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" As a teenager, my blackness was also questioned by some of the life choices I made that weren't considered to be 'black' choices. For example, joining the swim team when it is a known fact that 'black folk don't swim'; or choosing to become a vegetarian when blacks clearly love chicken. "
Swim
Love
Team
" Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward in mainstream media... Black people are always portrayed to be cool or overly dramatic, anything but awkward. "
Always
Black
People
" Every black film feels like it's Tyler Perry, and that just needs to stop. But people seem to slowly be looking for what else is out there - 'Is there something else besides this type of humor?' 'I'm tired of seeing men in dresses.' "
Looking
People
Stop
" Every time I'm recognized in public, I'm super grateful and appreciative, but I also get hot and nervous. "
Hot
Grateful
Recognized
" Growing up as a young black girl in Potomac, Maryland was easy. I had a Rainbow Coalition of friends of all ethnicities, and we would carelessly skip around our elementary school like the powerless version of Captain Planet's Planeteers. "
Growing Up
Rainbow
School
" I don't like to be overexposed. Too many articles, too many tweets, too many posts, I just don't like that. But at the same time, we live in a culture where that's almost necessary. People want content and they want their stuff when they want it. "
Live
Culture
Content
" I don't think the mainstream media understands people of color are multidimensional. For some reason, there's an idea that only white people are relatable. I don't think it's necessarily racist. But it's odd, because the people who watch the most television are black women, so we should be represented in more ways. "
Color
People
Think
" I hate to say it but I hate black humor. I feel like a Klan member saying it, but it's just not funny. "
Funny
Black
Saying
" I'll stick to finding the funny in the ordinary because my life is pretty ordinary and so are the lives of my friends - and my friends are hilarious. "
Finding
My Life
Life
" I'm a social media addict. "
Social
Addict
Media
" I'm transitioning to television and film, but ultimately, I want to have a stronger presence on the web and be able to curate the content that I want to see. To bring attention to other filmmakers and writers. "
Attention
Television
Content
" I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was black. I knew there was a history that accompanied my skin color, and my parents taught me to be proud of it. End of story. "
Proud
Parents
History
" I personally don't feel any pressure to make jokes about multiple baby-fathers and stereotypical black jokes, because one, that's just not my life, and two, I wouldn't even sound right talking about those things. "
Feel
Pressure
My Life
" I really want to be the black Tina Fey, where I just am able to produce my own content and produce other content for other minority filmmakers and put their voices on screen and basically be able to have free range to produce. "
Want
Content
Black
" I think that just because the show is titled 'Awkward Black Girl' and it is a predominantly black cast doesn't mean that you shouldn't be able to relate to these people. We're all human beings. We all essentially go through the same things when it comes down to it, so I don't I think that should limit who watches it. "
Think
People
Black
" I think that television and the web are fusing anyway, so I think that ultimately whatever I do, I'm going to blend the two forms. "
Web
Television
Think
" I thrive on obstacles. If I'm told that it can't be told, then I push harder. "
Thrive
Then
Push
" It's a bit cliche, but you can't go wrong by writing what you know. Even if you're a horrible writer, your own knowledge and experience is unrivaled. Nobody knows what you know like you know what you know. The way you see things is pretty unique. "
Knowledge
Unique
Writing
" It's one thing when other African-Americans try to threaten my race card, but when people outside of my ethnicity have the audacity to question how 'down' I am because of the bleak, stereotypical picture pop culture has painted for me as a black woman? Unacceptable. "
I Am
Picture
Woman
" It was jarring to be berated for 'acting white' when I was placed in a predominantly black middle school in Southern California. I was also chubby, into boys who weren't into me, and tried too hard to fit into this 'blackness' I was supposed to be. "
California
Acting
Black
" I used to love being the class clown. I loved to make jokes and make people laugh. There was a set of students who would find it funny. But the cool students were like, 'Eeew!' "
Loved
People
Cool
" I would love 'Awkward Black Girl' to be on television, with the right team of people who understand and get it. If 'Awkward Black Girl' could make it to HBO starring a dark-skinned black girl, that would be revolutionary. "
Girl
People
Right
" I wouldn't be anywhere without the Internet. "
Internet
Anywhere
Without
" Mainstream media has convinced people that black people aren't relatable. So when a Jewish person comes up to me and is all, 'Oh man, I love that one scene from Episode 3, I watch it over and over again,' I'm so happy. Because that's what I want. "
Love
Man
Media
" My first web series, 'Dorm Diaries,' was a realistic mockumentary about what it was like to be black at Stanford University. I'm black and I went to Stanford. Boom. Easy. "
Easy
Web
Black
" Part of the allure of watching characters on-screen is to be able to put yourself in his or her shoes or to be able to relate to what he or she is going through or what he or she is thinking. "
Yourself
She
Shoes
" People are tired of mainstream media's limited and confined portrayal of people of color. "
Tired
People
Media
" People are willing to support and watch web series as a legitimate form of entertainment. "
People
Watch
Support
" Respectfully, 'Awkward Black Girl' was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance. "
Black
Fun
Girl
" The black characters on TV are the sidekicks, or they're insignificant. You could put all the black sidekicks on one show, and it would be the most boring, one-dimensional show ever. Even look at the black women on 'Community' and 'Parks and Recreation' - they are the archetype of the large black women on television. Snide and sassy. "
Women
You
Show
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