Lena Waithe Quotes
Queer black characters have been the sidekick for long enough. It's time for us to finally take the lead.
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not.
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It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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The way I'm portrayed on the Internet is partly my doing, but it's partly the people that are presenting it so, you know, people come to know this strange version of a human. It can be pretty weird because people think I'm digging through dumpsters and smell like crap all the time.
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I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.
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Instead of waiting until the holiday season - when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations - and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations.
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I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.
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In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.
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I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter, who's incredibly serene, I can't seem to stop sleeping because she's asleep all the time. It's a pattern.
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That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
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I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.
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The West is in for a long, irregular confrontation - not with terrorism, which is simply a tactic, but with radical Islam.
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I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.
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Overall when you work in fashion, you're always in a rush. You're always a little late, always in a hurry. Every single moment's important, so you never have enough time to do what you want to do. It's ridiculous.
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Congress has changed the Social Security system over time, and over 20 times in the past Congress has raised taxes on Social Security in payroll taxes into the system.
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I do think it's a real problem when we have 'Black Lives Matter' making statements that are really radical, that are absolutely false.
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It's not an overnight thing. I can legitimately say I've been working my ass off for a long time and the fact that I'm getting this concert movie is perfect because it's coming at just the right time in my life.
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I've always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.
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Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.
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Queer black characters have been the sidekick for long enough. It's time for us to finally take the lead.
