It's hard for black women to ask for help. We think we don't need it. We're used to being in pain and living with it.

I think sometimes the stars align whether we want them to or not. And we're drawn to certain people and places for no other reason than...Destiny.

I think that we need to make it our goal to define freedom for ourselves.

We kind of have to rewrite our own stories and our own ways of being free.

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

Sometimes I feel as though I'm trying to take a hit for the team so that other people then can move forward. I'm like, "Look, I just laid out all of my stuff, so what's the worst that can happen?".

In my experience when I do try to avoid something, it makes its way into the work anyway. To be in front of it and just make friends with it is easier for me.

Аrt movements are always linked to some kind of turmoil.

I really hope that people feel permission to talk about their own troubles, but also to celebrate themselves.

Sometimes it's just rejecting stereotypes, sometimes it's creating work. Sometimes it's just blocking out the noise.

I also think that [political turmoil] gives artists something, a way of kind of processing.

It's unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.

You're cute when you're worried. Your eyebrows get all scrunched together.

That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behavior and we sculpt light.

It's my birthday, I'll get high if I want to.

I think I'm careful. My goal is to try to stay away as much from opinion journalism as possible.

A small rock holds back a great wave.

It is really an alienation to believe that learning is the result of teaching.

The pity of living only once is that there is no way, ever, to be sure which sorrows are inevitable.

People make up rumors and put them on the Internet.