Lena Waithe Quotes
I'm not asking for there to be all black writer's rooms or all Asian writer's rooms, or all white - I want them all to be diverse. When it's diverse, you're going to have a completely different dynamic. Everybody feels othered. Nobody feels like they've got the upper hand.
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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I am not honest.
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I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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I naturally like that dreamy, shoegazey sound on my vocals. A lot of reverb helps, and so do a lot of delay effects on everything.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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I'm not materialistic. I love clothes and all that stuff, but I don't need it to live.
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I moved from Minnesota to Las Vegas when I was 13, so I spent my high school years there and did some things I'm not proud of.
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'Copper' is my first period piece. It's funny because I've been doing a lot of episodes of 'Elementary' with Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu; they keep bringing me back on the show, and so I go from being an outstanding black doctor to being a kind of hood, ex-car thief who went through rehab in 'Elementary.'
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When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.
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I'm not asking for there to be all black writer's rooms or all Asian writer's rooms, or all white - I want them all to be diverse. When it's diverse, you're going to have a completely different dynamic. Everybody feels othered. Nobody feels like they've got the upper hand.
