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" Being fetishized because of my skin? I've definitely encountered that wall of people. "
Michaela Coel
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" So many of my memories revolve around TV. "
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" It strikes me as odd that we've made journeys with our social conditioning in certain areas, but not in others. The world is always changing; discoveries in technology and science relentlessly expose our dearest values as fictions. "
Michaela Coel
" In Britain, we need to start presenting the option of being a writer in front of black women. We need to present the idea of being a writer into poorer communities because the majority of black people in this country are working class. We need to let working-class people know that their voices are important. "
Michaela Coel
" Socialisation is not optional. It's an inescapable contract, and our birth into the world is our signature of agreement. Norms and ideologies vary from society to society, and most of them weren't formed during our lifetimes but were handed down from one generation to the next. "
Michaela Coel
" Growing up on our estate, we were all different colours, but we were all really poor. I never really realised that black was a problem for some people. "
Michaela Coel
" We live in a world where if you're white, an upper-class male of extreme privilege, and able-bodied, and you're nothing that takes you away from that norm, then you're going to have - then the world will not assign you problems because of what you are. That is actually the world we live in. "
Michaela Coel
" I wrote a play at drama school, which was a dark comedy - people laughed and cried. And then my script of one of the shows was picked up by a comedy sketch company... so then I had to write comedy. "
Michaela Coel
" There always seems to be an element of faith in my writing. "
Michaela Coel
" 'Chewing Gum' is a sitcom set on an estate in east London. Its central character is a girl from a Pentecostal background who decides to embark on a more worldly lifestyle - it's about adolescence 10 years too late. In my dreams, everybody is watching it, finding out about my world and realising it's not what they imagined. That it's not terrifying. "
Michaela Coel
" It was only when I went to sixth-form college that I encountered boys. "
Michaela Coel
" At college, I became friends with this girl who was a 'cool Christian.' They did street dance, then they prayed. It became my whole world. I had Christian friends. I went to Christian parties. "
Michaela Coel
" I don't know what it would have been like to grow up with a man in the house. "
Michaela Coel
" I am really weird. "
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" We can put fear of the future in front of us to block us, or behind us to drive us forward. I feel like telling all the people who look like me to start trying to write. You don't know it's possible because it's not often in front of you. "
Michaela Coel
" I want to make sure I'm climbing because there's no back-up. No one in my family has a house, and, regardless of your background, if someone has a house, that means you can always come back home. When you don't have that, it's like there isn't anywhere to stand, so you have to keep jumping. "
Michaela Coel
" Don't sit there and complain. Rub your hands together and figure out what to do. "
Michaela Coel
" I don't really go with the crowd. I'm the kind of person that if I heard some girls were bullying my friend in another school, I would go to that school by myself and try to have a fight with a hundred girls. "
Michaela Coel
" If there's anyone out there that looks a bit like me, or just feels a little bit out of place just trying to get into performing, you are beautiful; embrace it. You are intelligent; embrace it. You are powerful; embrace it. "
Michaela Coel
" The unpredictability of the weather, the increasing possibility of intelligence introducing a species more powerful than ours, the growing uncertainty that animals can or should be slaughtered for our pleasure, has led many of us to start asking more complex questions about what is and isn't normal. "
Michaela Coel
" My sets are not peaceful. It's a beautiful catastrophe. I am running around like a headless chicken. I don't sleep because I am writing. It's manic. "
Michaela Coel
" I definitely believe in spirituality. I like to pray, but I'm not praying to something that I can define; I'm just speaking because I know it does have an effect. "
Michaela Coel
" Twitter is just full of silly little people enjoying being sarcastic and rude and mocking. "
Michaela Coel
" I think you just have to do you, whatever that is, and not feel like you have to be a certain way for other people to like you. "
Michaela Coel
" I feel that when you want to start attacking people or completely rejecting the people you see as not on the godly side, to me, that isn't God, and that isn't love. "
Michaela Coel
" I was very unhappy at one point and dealt with my unhappiness by hitting people. "
Michaela Coel
" We need to encourage black women to know that they are authors of their own destiny, that they have important stories to tell, and that they are capable, so magically capable, of writing them and creating important pieces of work that will live forever in history. "
Michaela Coel
" We live in this era where we really enjoy being offended, although only on the Internet. I don't know how beneficial it is. I wonder if we live in an age where we don't have power, yet somehow feel we have virtual power. But I feel like it's a distraction from real life. "
Michaela Coel
" I have to go to sleep with music. "
Michaela Coel
" Women are tired of 'presenting' themselves; we just want to be who we are. "
Michaela Coel
" I see my shows like Gandhi, and I've got little baby Gandhis, and they are changing the world. I know that I'm a bit delusional about that, but I do think of them like Gandhi. They are not celebrities: they are like Gandhi and Mother Teresa. "
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