Lena Waithe Quotes
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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'm writing my story so that others might see fragments of themselves.
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I think the stakes are always high when you're an artist of color - to get things right, to get things perfect and make everybody happy.
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It's always been my intention to never be boxed in. I never like to do something that it feels like I've done before.
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I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.
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People can say what they want about a person, but if you're successful and you make them money, then people don't care.
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I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big movie buff, very much into TV shows, and would critique them.
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I wrote 'Twenties' back in 2009. I always wanted to tell a story where a queer black woman was the protagonist, and I'm so grateful to TBS for giving me a platform to tell this story.
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Obviously, I love Steph Curry. I think he's dope and a really cool player to watch.
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It's interesting how things you hear as a kid take on a whole new meaning when you are an adult.
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It took me forever to leave Chicago. I went to Columbia College because I wasn't ready to leave! My professors had to kick me in the pants to move to Los Angeles.
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I was running around all the time, talking out of turn, a lot of energy, and obsessed with movies. There's nothing I loved more than going to the movies.
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There's something specific about Chicagoans, and I just felt like I'd love to tell their story in a creative way. Not in a way to go, 'Oh, Chicago's perfect.' I don't believe that. I don't think that. I know we have our issues.
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I'm proud to carry that torch and be like, 'I'm gay! I'm black! Hang your dreams on me. Hang your hopes on me. I'll carry them to the best of my ability.'
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As a black woman in the industry, you really do have to hold your head higher, stick your chest out, be kind and polite and generous even when you don't want to be sometimes. I learned that and, also, just to never take no for an answer.
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I loved 'The Wizard Of Oz.' It was, like, you know how some kids, they're crying, and they put on - people put on 'Frozen' to get them to chill and just be quiet? For my family, it was 'The Wizard Of Oz.' They would literally tell babysitters, if she gets - like, if she starts misbehaving or she starts acting crazy, just put 'The Wizard Of Oz' on.
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Being born gay, black, and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to be a gay black female is.
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You have to write and develop and wait for the world to catch up to your art.
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With success always comes mimicry.
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The reason I get so excited about 'Master of None' is because it's showing people of color as regular people.
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I don't want to be white. I don't want to be straight. I don't want to blend in.
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All the writers for 'The Chi,' they're all phenomenal, so I'm just working on projects with them. They have great scripts.
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Somebody could look at me and go, 'She's dressed black,' or 'She's behaving in the stereotypical way of a black lesbian.' But this is how I feel most comfortable. This is my authentic self. I want the freedom to be that regardless of how someone interprets it.
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To be a black person is to come from a long bloodline of survivors and storytellers, with a resilience that people can't even comprehend.