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" I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent or child. "

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" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I was never physically abused, but when I came out to my parents late in life, when I was 27, they definitely had an intervention. "

" I'm always excited about stories that allow me to explore a character and create interesting stories and worlds that we haven't seen before. "

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

" Our statement's on the screen. Awards won't make it better, and a lack of awards won't make it worse. "

" I think 'Mudbound' reveals the interconnectiveness of our stories. You can't separate out threads of history and race as economic construct. 'Mudbound' makes it very plain. Race is about commerce; it's not an actual thing. It's a fiction that was created to basically divide resources unequally. "

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

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

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

" I think art always comments on the time and place it was created. "

" 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. "

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

" I feel a lot of folks, like teenagers, can feel like outcasts. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" For me, like, obviously, I want to see myself onscreen. "

" 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. "

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

" History informs where we are and how we got here. "

" 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. "

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

" I thought that marketing was a way to be creative in business but quickly learned all creative stuff happens at the ad agency. "

" I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer. "

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

" When I'm on set, I know what I want. "

" I want more images onscreen because when I was growing up, I think, like, that one kiss in 'The Color Purple' was the one thing that I had. Or 'The Watermelon Woman.' "

" My ultimate dream was just to be an auteur. "