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" Growing up, I was very aware that there weren't many people like me on the screen. "

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" Having to stake out your identity and have people question whether or not you're being yourself was a tension that I could relate to. "

" To have a simultaneous global audience as an artist is more than you could ever hope for. "

" People have almost been lulled into complacency because there are no signs over the water fountains. But the signs have been in the policies. There's still housing discrimination and wage discrimination. "

" For 'Pariah,' people were surprised Kim Wayans was there, but comedians have a dark streak; they're comedians for a reason. "

" You're your own person, and it's about you. I'm my own person, and it's about me. Everyone has their own life. "

" I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it. "

" I thought I'd get an MBA, and then I could be anything. And I'd write on the side. That was the idea. "

" You don't have to make your life look like anybody else says it should look. "

" 'Mudbound,' you know, is about home. 'Mudbound' is about what it means to be a citizen, and 'Mudbound,' in fact, is set in this post-reconstruction era that we haven't really explored. You know, not since 'Sounder' have we even really explored that experience. "

" Our country is pathologically violent. "

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

" New York offers people the anonymity to be themselves without judgment. "

" It's okay to be yourself and to love and accept yourself however you are. "

" There's a lot of power in saying no to big things that you don't want to do in order to say yes to the kind of things that really inspire you. "

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

" I was always going to direct. I wasn't going to hand my characters over to anyone else. "

" It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds. "

" Creatively, most of my influences come from the literary world: Alice Walker, Toni Cade Bambara. Writers are my heroes. "

" I like 'Paris is Burning' by Jennie Livington. "

" For me, Sundance always felt big. It's not the only way to make your way, but for me, it was definitely that critical link between struggling artist, kind of working on my own, to actually working professionally and being connected and being seen. "

" For me, 'Pariah' is very much about that inner churn. It's about this person's emotional inner life, and that's really what I wanted to bring to 'Bessie.' "

" I think art breaks down otherness. "

" For each character, I try to understand what is driving them. "

" There's a line that runs between everyone and their ancestors, and you cannot sever that. Maybe disassociate from those ideas but not how you are connected to them. But, you can realise how you've benefited and change how you raise your kids. "

" When I first started going out to lesbian clubs, I felt a very binary recreation of hetero culture. There are butches and femmes, and I felt like I was neither of those things. I'm in a turtleneck and jeans and just learning to be comfortable in that space. I realized I don't have to be a certain way. "

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

" Knowing what you want is not a shortcoming. Let people deal with their own anxieties. "

" I grew up in Nashville in a white suburb. We lived next to a Klan member. We didn't see hoods, but my dad knew that guy was a Grand Dragon. "

" I remember one summer I played, like, with the granddaughter of this known Klan member. Like, all summer we caught cicadas. And we had grown close, and so it was, like, time for her birthday party and I said 'Oh, like, what time do I come for your party?' And she's like 'Oh, no, you can't come to my house 'cause my parents don't like black people.' "

" To me, if you can do the Wicked Witch live, you can play anybody. "