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" Grief, for me, is a moment-to-moment experience. "

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" I will never understand how so many young women can go out in the freezing cold wearing so little clothing. "

" I don't feel like a hero. "

" I hope that audiences understand that there is a precariousness to black lives in this country that we need to address, that there has always been a precariousness to black lives in this country that we need to address. In fact, our country is built on the precariousness of black lives, the disposability of black lives. "

" What little return documentary filmmakers get often comes in the form of recognition by their peers and the critics who influence doc audiences around the country. "

" White people get to do that all of the time. They get to engage in bad behavior, even felonious behavior, but they rarely wind up in jail. But as a black person, losing your temper can cost you your life. Or insisting on your rights can cost you your life. "

" People come up and say, 'Thank you' for showing a black family loving their masculine-presenting child and for undoing the myth of black people as being rabidly homophobic. "

" Film festivals are usually unpleasant experiences on some level. The lines are ridiculous, the crowds are ridiculous, or the schedules are impossibly arranged: 'You say that there's a film you really want to see? Try the 8 A.M. show! Oh, it's too bad you didn't get to bed until 2 A.M. the night before.' "

" I have been gender-nonconforming my entire life. "

" I love marching bands. "

" I don't think I present as gender-conforming on screen, but some people need a little extra information. "

" Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board. "

" When I use the word 'buzz' in successive sentences, it's clearly time for me to stop writing. "

" We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system. "

Criminal Justice

" I would hate for people to think that 'Strong Island' is just about a family's grief. It is about a family's grief, yes, but it is also an interrogation of our criminal justice system. "

" Black lives are too easy to take in America because we don't want to question why people are so afraid of black and brown people to begin with. And that's what I want 'Strong Island' to do. "

" My father just believed in my mother's ability to do anything. "

" When I was young, I didn't see anyone who was trans like me anywhere in the movies. "

" I had a list of 10 rules when we started 'Strong Island,' and one of them was, 'Yance will never appear on camera with sync sound.' "

" Our blackness and how to survive being black in America was something that our parents instilled in us extraordinarily well. "

" When I was making 'Strong Island,' it was very clear to me that my brother's death was a point on a line that stretched back into the 1940s and beyond in my family - and in the nation. "

" There are people who get to be three-dimensional humans in the United States, and there are people who do not. "

" Grief is a very complicated monster. There's no real exorcising of it. It has a different form every day. "

" I'm incredibly proud to be the first trans director to be nominated for an Oscar. "

" I think fear has been racialised. When you get someone who says 'I was afraid' of a big black guy, that's enough to say, 'Okay, not guilty,' or, 'No indictment.' It's persisted over generations, and it needs to stop. "

" 'Strong Island' is slang for Long Island, New York. And it really grew out of - what may surprise people, it really grew out of the very vibrant hip-hop scene that, you know, is located and still generates artists out of Long Island. "

" If I can help one family embrace their child and not displace them and throw them out, I'm happy about that. "

" Everyone in the street where I grew up was given the same message: You can be anything; you can do anything. That wasn't extraordinary; that was ordinary for us. My folks didn't believe in black exceptionalism. There's nothing exceptional about 'You can have that, too' - except when it comes to justice. You can't have that. "

" I remind audiences that I'm in the fortunate position to make a film about my family. "

" The quality of festival Q&As is often a matter of chance. Sometimes the lights come up on movies I loved, and not a single meaningful question is asked. Sometimes it's the opposite. "