Ava DuVernay Quotes

I never had a desire to be a filmmaker. As a child and a teenager and in college, I was not aware of black women making films.

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• I never had a desire to be a filmmaker. As a child and a teenager and in college, I was not aware of black women making films.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • Women
  • Black
  • College