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" My impression is that the Academy is really sincere about moving toward a more inclusive and representative Hollywood. "

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" When I was making 'Strong Island,' it was very clear to me that my brother's death was a point on a line that stretched back into the 1940s and beyond in my family - and in the nation. "

" When I use the word 'buzz' in successive sentences, it's clearly time for me to stop writing. "

" There are people who get to be three-dimensional humans in the United States, and there are people who do not. "

" People come up and say, 'Thank you' for showing a black family loving their masculine-presenting child and for undoing the myth of black people as being rabidly homophobic. "

" My father just believed in my mother's ability to do anything. "

" White communities - and I exempt poor white communities from this - have power over their representation. White people have the ability to define themselves, to exert their agency in a way that they get to be believed. No one believes black people. No one. Until a white person vouches for them. "

" I had a list of 10 rules when we started 'Strong Island,' and one of them was, 'Yance will never appear on camera with sync sound.' "

" I would hate for people to think that 'Strong Island' is just about a family's grief. It is about a family's grief, yes, but it is also an interrogation of our criminal justice system. "

" Most black families went from the South to the city. My family went from the South to the city to the suburbs because they wanted their children to have the realization of the suburban lifestyle. What does it mean that that doesn't actually protect you? "

" Grief is a very complicated monster. There's no real exorcising of it. It has a different form every day. "

" It would have been tough for anyone to adapt 'Push' - an amazing but wrenching novel by Sapphire - for the screen, and I think director Lee Daniels made interesting choices, particularly with Precious' fantasies. In my view, some of them work and some do not, but they are definitely provocative directorial choices. "

" I love marching bands. "

" What little return documentary filmmakers get often comes in the form of recognition by their peers and the critics who influence doc audiences around the country. "

" It would be easier for people to grasp that gender, sex, and sexual orientation are different things if we had as much imagination in real life as we do when we are making our movies. "

" I remind audiences that I'm in the fortunate position to make a film about my family. "

" When I was young, I didn't see anyone who was trans like me anywhere in the movies. "

" If my making history makes it easier for a trans kid at home somewhere to feel more at home in their skin, then I'm so excited about that. "

" Everyone in the street where I grew up was given the same message: You can be anything; you can do anything. That wasn't extraordinary; that was ordinary for us. My folks didn't believe in black exceptionalism. There's nothing exceptional about 'You can have that, too' - except when it comes to justice. You can't have that. "

" Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board. "

" 'Strong Island' is slang for Long Island, New York. And it really grew out of - what may surprise people, it really grew out of the very vibrant hip-hop scene that, you know, is located and still generates artists out of Long Island. "

" We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system. "

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" There is nothing quite as exciting as watching a master at work. "

" Grief, for me, is a moment-to-moment experience. "

" Our blackness and how to survive being black in America was something that our parents instilled in us extraordinarily well. "

" White people get to do that all of the time. They get to engage in bad behavior, even felonious behavior, but they rarely wind up in jail. But as a black person, losing your temper can cost you your life. Or insisting on your rights can cost you your life. "

" I don't feel like a hero. "

" The justice system isn't meant to work for people of color in this country. "

" If I can help one family embrace their child and not displace them and throw them out, I'm happy about that. "

" I have been gender-nonconforming my entire life. "

" My brother's death picked up my life and put it down somewhere else. I had an image of myself in my mind as a working artist, and when he died, all of that changed. "