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		Everyone always asks, 'Did you ever rebel? Did you dye your hair blue? Did you wear black nail polish?' I mean, of course, there have been episodes when you wear weird-colored lipstick... But generally, I think I was pretty much the way I am now.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Aerin Lauder 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Vaughn Monroe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Dakota Johnson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tamron Hall 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I take it seriously that it's a privilege and honor to be a role model to young girls, both black and white. It's not something I take lightly. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tamron Hall 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Iman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Octavia E. Butler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I would say I'm pretty much the exact same as the stereotypical American kid. I mean I'm really lazy, I play a lot of video games, I like girls. I like, you know, the violence and action type thing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Callan McAuliffe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		'Lipstick Jungle' was on the air for 20 episodes - I loved 'Lipstick Jungle.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Candace Bushnell 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tatiana Maslany 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even though I'm the only woman in a headscarf there, because the guy next to me has a beard and a Sailor Moon costume. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				G. Willow Wilson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		I mean, it's weird because people lately have been coming up to me and going, 'Oh, my God. '300' is huge.' I'm like, 'Really? It's not done yet!' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Zack Snyder 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		If someone told me, 'I'm gonna give you $600 million, but I'm going to take your hair'? Take my hair! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				J. R. Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My biggest luck was the Terry McMillan era, because what happened after the phenomenon of 'Waiting to Exhale' is that publishing woke up. They said, 'Wow. Black people do read.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tananarive Due 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Kate Winslet 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Nate Parker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I've been doing acting since I was 6 years old, and I don't know how to do anything besides act and sing. Back in the day, you had to do it all - you had to sing, dance, and act. I'm from the old school where that is what I was trained to do, and that's what I am expected to do, so it's weird when people ask me to choose. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Kat Graham 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Lana Del Rey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		If you mentioned Hanna-Barbera to people, they said, 'Oh yeah, Flintstone, Yogi, Scooby-Doo, Jetsons,' and that was pretty much it. We have characters with very high recognition factors and great films, but no organized plans for really making the most of them and increasing their value. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Fred Seibert 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Never before have I imagined my life without him—like this house, he is my only point of reference in this difficult existence, this unstable and frightening world. The thought of his leaving home fills me with a terror so strong, it takes my breath away. I feel like one of those seagulls covered in oil from a spill, drowning in a black tar of fear. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Tabitha Suzuma 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				H. L. Mencken 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Not everything has to mean something. Some things just are. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
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		Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jon Ronson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Everyone always asks, 'Did you ever rebel? Did you dye your hair blue? Did you wear black nail polish?' I mean, of course, there have been episodes when you wear weird-colored lipstick... But generally, I think I was pretty much the way I am now. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Aerin Lauder