Ava DuVernay Quotes
It's not enough even to have one black Barbie... because black women are not a monolith.
Quotes to Explore
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.
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The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.
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Yiddish, originally, in Eastern Europe was considered the language of children, of the illiterate, of women. And 500 years later, by the 19th century, by the 18th century, writers realized that, in order to communicate with the masses, they could no longer write in Hebrew. They needed to write in Yiddish, the language of the population.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.
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After Halle Berry does her films and Queen Latifah does her films, it's left to all the black, Latino and Asian actresses to fight over a couple of roles. I opted for some TV. There's just not a ton of work in film.
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There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.
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There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.
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In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.
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Women aren't as mere as they used to be.
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If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?
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I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends.
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I know a lot of women who embody what it means to be a feminist but do not want to use that word. The misperceptions about what it's all about have gotten into their heads.
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Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.
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There are thousands of good-looking women out there. Longevity for a heroine doesn't come only with good looks: talent matters.
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I'm not thinking about the next record really yet. I kind of want to do a bunch of stuff with Jonathan Zawada, the guy who did the album art. I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record.
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My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
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Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.
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It's not enough even to have one black Barbie... because black women are not a monolith.
