“How they see us, how dominant culture sees us, should not dictate or determine or drive our work our or worth”
“With my current [relationship], we’re in different fields and we support each other in our feelings. No accomplishment is better than the other. We’re each other’s cheerleaders.”
“We’ve been presented before as asexual or as whores. No, I’m a human being and human beings were made to be touched and have sex so that they could make more human beings. And I like sex! I certainly want to highlight it. I want our humanity in our sexuality.”
“I just began a systematic push that we were going to talk about sexuality equality. Listen, if you could shot someone in the face on television…I hope to God my child never shoots someone in the face, but I really hope she has some wonderful sex.”
“[My husband] reminds me I need to walk in that door and drop it. I’m not the director, I’m mom. As a mom and a wife, I do things that are my responsibility. I will come home from working 12-, 13-hour days and he’ll say ‘What’s for dinner?’ And then I have to pony up. I think my relationship has kept it real.”
“Since Selma, I’m not so focused on achievement—I’m not so focused on trying to be the best, because I feel very comfortable in my work now. I feel that Selma has opened me up because I feel like I’m strong enough and balanced enough to be able to do both—a good relationship and good work.”
“We still need more people behind the scenes, in the writers’ rooms and executive positions. We still don’t own a lot of stuff in this industry and that’s what I want to see change.”
“I don’t look at [Black women in TV] as something to be feared. I look at it as an opportunity. It is wide open and for the taking.”
