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" I feel like I pull inspiration, in general, from how I feel on a day. "
Zazie Beetz
Day
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" What I crave, and what I want to see on television, is when you see a minority character, not to have it being about them being black or Asian or Latino. If you watch 'Friends,' for example, it's not about a group of people being white. It's about a group of people being friends, you know? You should just let the characters exist. "
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Black
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Friends
" For me, fear manifests itself in snoozing and inactivity. I just become so sleepy, any time of day, when something needs to be done. I sometimes go days without responding to texts or reading books or being able to process much of anything beyond the sun slowly creeping through my living room windows. "
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" Agriculture is one of the biggest causes of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Cars? Planes? Trains? Nope. Cow farts. "
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Agriculture
Atmosphere
" I'm pretty picky about my hair, so I end up always styling it myself. "
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Myself
Up
" I do wonder if it's my responsibility to spread a message of environmental awareness or political awareness or just, like, don't be racist or whatever, but I don't want to be the person who's like, 'Everyone be vegan forever!' "
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Environmental
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" Growing up I definitely, definitely had a bunch of things of, 'Um, am I black enough?' - and I guess specifically, 'Am I German enough?' Why are we measuring blackness? "
Zazie Beetz
Growing Up
Why
Black
" Despite my career, so much of my life has been dictated by what I'm afraid of: fear that I am not talented. Fear that people will finally realize that I am a boring individual who doesn't have many ambitions beyond starting a family 'at a good time' in life. "
Zazie Beetz
Good
Family
Time
" My father is German; my mother is African-American. Growing up, I visited my grandparents in Berlin a lot. I would not see any other person of color for three weeks. People would stare. They would say things like, 'Oh, you look like chocolate - I want to eat you up!' "
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Mother
People
Look
" I used to cry on planes. I don't anymore. It probably took almost a hundred agonizing flights to get there. Now, when I take off, a smile quivers on the corner of my lips. "
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Smile
Now
Used
" I like representing different kinds of black people - showing they exist. "
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People
Different
Exist
" It's fascinating working with young children. You have to improvise around them, and they're moving around and doing stuff, and you have to be real with them. "
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Young
Children
Doing
" I actually didn't think I was going to do TV because I don't really watch TV. I'm a little bit pretentious, and I do these little indie movies, so I envisioned that more as the path for myself. "
Zazie Beetz
Path
Myself
Movies
" I've had acting teachers say, 'If you want to do anything else but act, that means you're not an actor,' which I think is stupid! "
Zazie Beetz
Stupid
Teachers
Think
" I've begun feeling that my responsibility is to the Earth. Our generation's war is climate change, so I've really been modifying how I eat and what I eat. "
Zazie Beetz
Change
Responsibility
War
" When the Berlin Wall came down, my dad left to visit the U.S. He met my mom at this summer camp where they were both working, so I grew up between Washington Heights and Germany speaking two languages. "
Zazie Beetz
Down
Heights
Washington
" Bad bread is the one thing I refuse. I need good bread. "
Zazie Beetz
Bread
Bad
Thing
" The version of me on the Internet, it's not me. It's one portion. "
Zazie Beetz
Internet
Portion
Version
" I always thought my alternative life, if I wasn't acting, would be to become a midwife. I love women. I want to help them exist. "
Zazie Beetz
Love
Help
Life
" I feel like, every six months, I learn my hair or my skin anew and find a new thing that I like to do, and then I abandon it and move on. "
Zazie Beetz
Feel
Learn
Find
" I remind myself that, though there was a time anxiety might have stopped me, today is not that day. And so, by checking in with myself, minute by minute, I push myself through. "
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Me
Today
Time
" I identify with my womanhood before anything else because that's what I deal with when I am alone. "
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Because
Anything
I Am
" In the United States, if you're African-American, it can be assumed that your family has been here for generations. In Europe, colonialism is much more alive, and it's assumed you're from Nigeria or Senegal. "
Zazie Beetz
Here
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You
" It is so frustrating to feel in danger. People have followed me around at 2 in the morning and have literally said, 'Don't make me follow you. You're not responding to me.' It's incredibly degrading. "
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Feel
Morning
Me
" I think what happens with a lot of writing and art is that specificity ends up being relatable while universality becomes vague. "
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Think
Happens
Art
" I wish I was a morning person. "
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Person
Morning
I Wish
" I don't know how people say exercising is addictive. "
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Know
Say
How
" At home in my room, I'm funny, but if I'm commissioned to be that, I don't feel very funny. "
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Feel
Room
Funny
" Walking in the street, particularly in a city like New York, every single day, I am reminded of how objectified women can be. Being catcalled every day, multiple times a day, all the time... it just constantly happens. "
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Day
I Am
Women
" Growing up, my aunts would always put in hair ties and bows and all kinds of stuff, and I always hated it. "
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Growing
Always
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" I was an only child until I was 15, so I was able to reap the benefit of that. "
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Child
Only
Only Child