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" Satire and comedy are really the only film mediums where you can get into ideas and have people leave the theater without being moralized. "

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" When you're part of a society where you're constantly having to define your identity and sort of negotiate with what the mainstream culture thinks you are, you have less energy and time to figure out who you are when you go home at night. "

" There are a plethora of ways of being black, just like there's many ways to being white. "

" Films with predominantly white casts can come in any form, tell any story, big or small. For black films, you have the light, fluffy rom-coms or 'Madea' movies, and then you have the black-torture awards movie. "

" Everyone is very aware that, not only do we have a race problem, but it's so pervasive that it affects national and global politics on a scale that I don't think a lot of people imagined. "

" I have different privileges because I am a man, and I have to acknowledge that and realize that another person of color who is also a woman is having a different experience than I am. "

" It's called 'Dear White People,' but really, it's about these black characters and how they are involved or not involved in a racial scandal in ways that might surprise them and others, right? "

" That is just the reality of being a marginalized person in this country: you have to deal with the psychological impact of your oppressor - whether that's being a woman dealing with men or gay people dealing with straight people or trans people dealing with everybody else. "

" Self-doubt is a constant companion for a chubby, gay, black boy born in the South. "

" It's not new to attempt to vilify the minority that speaks about their oppression. That's not a new thing. "

" We get caught in our little silos and end up working against ourselves. And I think social media culture really encourages that, because you're really just shouting into a void hoping someone picks up on what you're saying. "

" I definitely have fun commenting on the real world and interpreting through the 'Dear White People' lens. "

" I never liked 'Donnie Darko' quite as much as my film school peers. "

" Racism is systemic: It's oppression that's built into the laws, legislation, into the way neighborhoods are policed, and into job opportunities and health care and education. "

" There is a difference between being offended and being prejudiced and even being bigoted against. There's a difference between that and racism. "

" I saw 'Beauty and the Beast' at eight years old in theatres and spent hours trying to recreate the majestic imagery of that story in a drawing notepad at home. "

" I find myself listening to Blood Orange and Janelle Monae and artists like that. "

" I never quite lived up to the image of the black man as I saw it growing up. I was never listening to the right music at the right time or wearing the right clothes at the right time. I was still listening to Michael Jackson, and everyone had sort of moved on to gangster rap. Alanis Morissette when everyone else was listening to En Vogue. "

" I'm a lover of film and storytelling. I believe that I was put on earth to tell stories, and I'm not interested in telling the same stories over and over and over again. "

" Part of my struggle with being gay was that a lot of my homophobia was internalized because of the cues that I was - received. I didn't see anybody like myself in the culture. RuPaul was the closest to a gay, out black man that I had growing up. "

" It's always kind of gratifying to go back to the place that launched you and show you did good. "

" Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others. "

" Black people are experiencing a systemic disadvantage, and it goes back to slavery, which was not that long ago. "

" I think art is much more valuable when it's honest. If it's not honest, it's just propaganda. "

" Daring to make films of any kind and thus invite the possibility of ridicule was an internal battle of mine for many years as I worked on the screenplay for what would become 'Dear White People' beginning at the end of George W. Bush's second term. "

" I think I have a threshold for taking things too seriously. "

" I think great movies do promote conversation, great movies are honest, and great movies are sometimes polarizing. "

" The thing about TV is you kind of have an endless canvas. You can always keep going. "

" I love great prestige television, but because I make television, sometimes I don't want to, like, you know, fall into a very heavy cerebral drama. "

" There can't be reverse racism against a group that is not at a disadvantage. "

" Hollywood is a world where the only thing that gets green-lit is something that made money the last year. "