Lena Waithe Quotes

• The only way you really see change is by helping to create it.

  Lena Waithe

  Ayuda

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• You can talk all day long, but if you don't do something, it's a waste.

  Lena Waithe

  Long, Waste, Ifs

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• Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story.

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  Stories, Firsts, Telling The Truth

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• Creo que siempre hay mucho en juego cuando eres un artista de color: hacer las cosas bien, que salgan perfectas y que todo el mundo esté contento. Pero no me preocupan los políticos ni lo que piensen. Y no siempre voy a tener éxito. Tendré errores, pero espero que la gente sea paciente con el programa y con nosotros y sepa que nuestras intenciones son buenas.

  Lena Waithe

  Artista, Pensamiento, Gente

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• Mi marca es contar buenas historias. Quiero que [mi empresa] Hillman Grad Productions se asocie con grandes historias, personajes interesantes, cosas tridimensionales y honestas.

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  Character, Interesting, Want

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• I do think it's important for black writers to show that we too can make it into the mainstream. Growing up, I didn't just watch The Cosby Show, I watched Growing Pains and Family Ties too. We can tell those stories too.

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  Growing Up, Pain, Thinking

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• I'm not in the business of making us look clean, but I don't want us to look like monsters either. I think there is a little bit of hero and villain in all of us.

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  Hero, Thinking, Villain

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• I really want the sense of black people being interconnected: If you black and you from Chicago, there's a connective tissue we all have. Even if you're not blood related, that doesn't mean I can't look out for you.

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  Mean, People, Black

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• Today, you'll have a following for a film before it even hits theaters. We can reach out and touch our audience in ways that they couldn't. So it's about getting eyes, getting interest, and getting people involved.

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  Eye, People, Today

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• I never like to do something that it feels like I've done before.

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  Done, Feels

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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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  School, Tv Shows, Tvs

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• Most writers stick to what they know. The black experience is our experience, so it's not that challenging for us. That's why sometimes you'll see writers that start off telling black stories, but later branch out into other material. People say they "sell out." No, they evolve as writers.

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  People, Challenges, Black

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• I always want to challenge myself as a writer. I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

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  Challenges, Directors, Want

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