Dee Rees There’s a dearth of media around young black women and certainly a dearth of LGBT media for people of color. – Dee Rees Black Quotes Color Quotes Dearth Quotes Lgbt Quotes Media Quotes People Quotes Women Quotes 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. 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.’
Remy Ma The song ‘Conceited’ on ‘There’s Something About Remy’ was inspired by people always telling me that I’m so much prettier in person or that I’ve lost so much weight since they saw me on TV. I don’t even know if that’s a compliment. Were you watching me on TV thinking I was ugly? – Remy Ma
Nina Turner Whether it is access to voting rights, representation in government, or the outsized influence of money in our political system, the opportunity to interact with and participate in democracy is available to some, but blocked for many. – Nina Turner
Jim Kelly I’ve always been good at refocusing my attention away from something that was bringing me down. – Jim Kelly
Eric Hoffer You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. – Eric Hoffer
John T Flynn But no one can praise Roosevelt for doing this and then insist that he restored our traditional political and economic systems to their former vitality. – John T Flynn
Geraldine James I went to a terrifying boarding school and everyone was a brilliant singer or musician or artist, and I wasn’t good at any of those things, so I became the school clown. Someone spotted me, cast me as the Artful Dodger in a play and that was it. – Geraldine James
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