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" I'm massively open-minded to pretty much anything. "

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" The idea of wanting to do something that's completely natural and then having to repress it is something that I find fascinating. "

" I love listening to audiobooks - I always lose my glasses, but if I have an audiobook, I don't need them. "

" Growing up on our estate, we were all different colours, but we were all really poor. I never really realised that black was a problem for some people. "

" 'Chewing Gum' is a sitcom set on an estate in east London. Its central character is a girl from a Pentecostal background who decides to embark on a more worldly lifestyle - it's about adolescence 10 years too late. In my dreams, everybody is watching it, finding out about my world and realising it's not what they imagined. That it's not terrifying. "

" I took what I was given in Christianity and put it into my secular, hedonistic life. "

" My generation of black British people often feels part American because of what we learned from TV. "

" Being fetishized because of my skin? I've definitely encountered that wall of people. "

" I don't really go with the crowd. I'm the kind of person that if I heard some girls were bullying my friend in another school, I would go to that school by myself and try to have a fight with a hundred girls. "

" In drama school, they do these big shows and period dramas, and I felt that none of those shows were representing me as a person, and I knew I wouldn't be cast in any of those when I left school. I decided to write my own one-woman show, and that was called 'Chewing Gum Dreams.' "

" There's Psalms that tell you things that nobody tells you - that you're fearfully and wonderfully made, that you're beautiful, that you have worth, basically. "

" I didn't know I was going to write for TV until I was suddenly writing for TV, so that kind of stuff can bewilder you. "

" I have to go to sleep with music. "

" Inequality starts in the womb. "

" When I grew up, my race was not a thing. My identity was in my class. It was not about colour on my estate. "

" Men are trained to like this version of womanhood, and when someone comes along smashing the table and messing up the party, it's a bit like, 'Get out; why are you disturbing the peace?' "

" In Britain, we need to start presenting the option of being a writer in front of black women. We need to present the idea of being a writer into poorer communities because the majority of black people in this country are working class. We need to let working-class people know that their voices are important. "

" I was very unhappy at one point and dealt with my unhappiness by hitting people. "

" I wanted to write a show about an estate that wasn't sad or morbid, like a lot of shows portray working class life to be. "

" What was nice for me was that when I got to secondary school - like high school - I met many other Ghanaian schoolgirls whose parents were also born in Ghana and were raising them here. We automatically had a huge kinship that was amazing. "

" We live in this era where we really enjoy being offended, although only on the Internet. I don't know how beneficial it is. I wonder if we live in an age where we don't have power, yet somehow feel we have virtual power. But I feel like it's a distraction from real life. "

" Don't sit there and complain. Rub your hands together and figure out what to do. "

" My sets are not peaceful. It's a beautiful catastrophe. I am running around like a headless chicken. I don't sleep because I am writing. It's manic. "

" I am really weird. "

" The acting world is tough. It's competitive - and even more so for women - but actually, for black female actresses, the issue isn't really that it's competitive: it's that there just aren't enough roles for them in film and TV. "

" I'm very rational, so sometimes I need the facts, and if I don't have the facts, then I get huffy, and I move on. "

" The environment on the 'Chewing Gum' set is where everyone can work to the best of their abilities and everyone is happy. So, if I'm not happy with something, I've learnt that you don't start flailing about; you go in quietly, and there's a conversation. "

" Comedy in the past hasn't spoken to women because it wasn't written by women, and male writers don't make women three-dimensional characters. Too often, women just facilitate the man's comedy: they're not crazy; they're not funny. But women are as vulgar as they are elegant, as stinky as they are smelling of eau de parfum. "

" I'm a Louis Theroux addict. "

" I love Issa Rae. I adore her. "

" In comedy, I often see so many weird race jokes, and it's like, there is no racial diversity in your show to even make those race jokes. The problem is that there is no one in the back to say, 'Hey, that race joke is not really appropriate.' "