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" I wrote 'Twenties' back in 2009. I always wanted to tell a story where a queer black woman was the protagonist, and I'm so grateful to TBS for giving me a platform to tell this story. "

Lena Waithe

Grateful

Black

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Always

Success

" I definitely have been very mindful of what kind of leader and creator I want to be. A lot of that has to with looking at the writers that you work with. They're all like your children. They all need love, but different versions of it. "

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Feel

" If you think you aren't valid for whatever reason, let my existence and the way the world embraces my existence tell you that you are valid. You deserve to look, live, and walk through the world however you see fit. That's why I find it extremely important to be so out, so black, and so myself. "

" To be a black person is to come from a long bloodline of survivors and storytellers, with a resilience that people can't even comprehend. "

" The things that make us different, those are our superpowers. "

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Different

Things

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" People always go, 'Damn, how you got all this happening at once?' I tell them it's the Chicago in me. "

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Chicago

People

" My family still lives in Chicago: my mother, my sister, my nephew, my family is there. So even though I am not living there, I feel very close to it, and I visit very often. "

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