"One of the facets of growing up the way I did, I never had the experience of being solely in the black community. Even my family, my mother is what they call Creole, so she's part French, part black, and grew up in Louisiana. It's a very specific kind of blackness that is different than what is traditionally thought of as the black community and black culture. So, I never felt a part of whatever that was."

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Source : Source: www.moviesonline.ca

Justin Simien

#Mother Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Community Quotes

“Take charge of your environment.”
“Well, what if we did this in the mind as opposed to the brain? So instead of blood vessels and dendrites, what if it was consciousness and dream production? And that would allow us to have characters that represent emotions. And that felt like, man, that's exactly what animation does best - strong, opinionated, caricatured personalities. And that just got me excited.”

Source : "It's All In Your Head: Director Pete Docter Gets Emotional In 'Inside Out'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 19, 2016.
“Fortunately, I don't talk about politics on stage.”
“Only those who [do] nothing [make] no mistakes.”
“The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good; and many a good book has remained unwritten... because there floated before the mind's eye the ideal of a better or a best.”
“The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist”
“There is time in life for everything.”
“The same water that will kill you, drown you, give you hypothermia is the same water that will help you survive.”

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