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" We shouldn't be discriminating against each other. The whole 'light skin versus dark skin' is an idea we need to break down. "

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" Growing up, I was very aware that there weren't many people like me on the screen. "

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

" Our statement's on the screen. Awards won't make it better, and a lack of awards won't make it worse. "

" For me, Sundance always felt big. It's not the only way to make your way, but for me, it was definitely that critical link between struggling artist, kind of working on my own, to actually working professionally and being connected and being seen. "

" I've always liked to write, but I never thought I could make a career out of it. "

" 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. "

" When I'm on set, I know what I want. "

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

" I grew up in Nashville in a white suburb. We lived next to a Klan member. We didn't see hoods, but my dad knew that guy was a Grand Dragon. "

" If I can go three grandmothers back and find a slave, that means someone else can go three grandmothers back and find a slave owner. When you interrogate your histories, it forces you to rethink who you are and where you are. "

" Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you. "

" My first job was at Proctor and Gamble in Cincinnati, my second job was at a pharmaceutical company in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. My third job was at Palmolive. And I realized, three jobs in three years, maybe it wasn't the job. It had to be me. "

" We have to create a range, and we have to let there be possibilities. And basically, by showing there are different types of people, you write down the monolith. You stop having to represent for all black people when you allow there to be different types represented. "

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

" I thought that marketing was a way to be creative in business but quickly learned all creative stuff happens at the ad agency. "

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

" You don't get to hand footnotes to the audience or explain what you were trying to do and what it's supposed to be. Everything has to be on the screen, and it has to be clear. "

" I'm always choosing the hard things, the things that aren't easy. "

" I definitely felt the desire to, like - I definitely knew there was an elsewhere. I definitely knew that, like, if I were going to be free, I needed to be away from, kind of, like, Nashville and kind of get out of the South and get out of the country. "

" I was going to study business administration at Florida A&M, at the height of Reaganomics. "

" Actors need to know why they're saying what they're saying, more than just learning their lines. "

" Creatively, I just like interesting characters. So straight, gay, or whatever - like, whatever, wherever the characters are coming from or their lifestyle. "

" In some communities it is - like, for me, coming out with my parents, they were not accepting; they were not understanding. So it depends. For kids in New York and L.A., maybe it's different, but for kids in Iowa, for kids in Tennessee, it's still something that's not really talked about. "

" I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer. "

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

" It's a failure of imagination if you can only write what you know - we have to be able to imagine different worlds. "

" In an industry that's uncertain and when you're in a lot of situations that are anxiety-causing, to have someone there who has your back unconditionally and cares for you and the material and would give anything to make sure everything is OK, makes you feel so much better. It gives you a sense of security as an artist. "

" With 'Pariah,' at the time, I had just come out. I had a coming out experience, and I was writing about it, transposing my experience as an adult: What would it have been like if I had been a teenager in Brooklyn? The funny thing was people thought I was from Brooklyn. I had to be like, 'No, I'm from Nashville.' "

" I'm always excited about stories that allow me to explore a character and create interesting stories and worlds that we haven't seen before. "