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" For kids who are struggling, who are of faith, just reconciling yourself to the fact that God loves you, accepts you for who you are, is a big step in the healing, especially when your biological family is unaccepting of you. "

Dee Rees

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Interesting

Character

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Moment

Pulse

" I still want to do features, but on my own terms. "

" Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you. "

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" Shooting on film is great because it imparts discipline: What do you need to see so you're not finding it in the camera. When I'm shooting, I have the scene in mind, where I'm going to have certain lines. I learned to overlap and to shoot more than I think I need. That was the learning curve. "

" There's a dearth of media around young black women and certainly a dearth of LGBT media for people of color. "

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" I think art breaks down otherness. "

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" We shouldn't be discriminating against each other. The whole 'light skin versus dark skin' is an idea we need to break down. "

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" I'd go to lesbian parties. I felt like I wasn't hard enough to be butch, but I wasn't wearing heels and a skirt - I wasn't femme - so I felt like I was sort of invisible. "

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Hard

Heels

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" I had this thing where I only wanted to work on original material, no adaptations, and obviously, that changed. I really wanted to have the resources and have the space and the time to tell stories that I've really cared about. I've kind of changed my approach, but I've gotten to do that, to tell stories that I really care about. "

" When I first came to New York, I was surprised by all these out teenagers who were openly on the street being who they were. That intrigued me because I was 27 and still struggling with being myself. "

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New

Myself

" Nothing I do is didactic. I just want to hold up a mirror and say, 'This is who we are.' "

Dee Rees

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