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

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" With friendship, it's hard sometimes - you don't outgrow your friends, but you do question how people are friends to you in different ways and how it's okay to cultivate other relationships outside of that. "

" I like 'Paris is Burning' by Jennie Livington. "

" The enemy is the system. And the system is made up of people, and we have a choice in that. "

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

" Our country is pathologically violent. "

" Each moment is defined by a multitude of histories, the past constantly converging upon us, perpetually decaying and reforming itself on the steady pulse of now, now, now, now. "

" New York offers people the anonymity to be themselves without judgment. "

" I kept getting offered all this young adult stuff. I don't want to keep telling teen coming-of-age stories! "

" 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. "

" I thought I'd get an MBA, and then I could be anything. And I'd write on the side. That was the idea. "

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

" Contemporarily, we struggle with people worried about representation sometimes. It's a burden, as artists, that we take on that limits the work. It limits the characters people play. It limits the roles they want to do. "

" 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 wrote poetry and short stories. I would send them to magazines; they wouldn't get in. But short stories are how I found philosophy and how I'd understand the world. "

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

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

" The only advice I can give is to surround yourself with people who are friends and people who believe in you and your material and who are going to help you take it to the next level. It doesn't mean you don't listen to criticism, but you listen to it and edit it, and you figure out what you can take. "

Surround Yourself

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

" I was interested with exploring the idea of who gets to be in possession of the land - how it's sometimes impossible to go back home, how family can be the thing that drags you down. "

" 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. "

" I think Charlottesville was shocking for some, but it wasn't for me or for my family, I mean, because I grew up in 1980s Nashville. "

" I'd go to lesbian parties. I felt like I wasn't hard enough to be butch, but I wasn't wearing heels and a skirt - I wasn't femme - so I felt like I was sort of invisible. "

" 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.' "

" Nothing I do is didactic. I just want to hold up a mirror and say, 'This is who we are.' "

" As long as you tell the best story possible, you can trust that people will be able to connect to it. "

" There's a dearth of media around young black women and certainly a dearth of LGBT media for people of color. "

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

" 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. "