"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."

-- Lena Waithe

#Mean Quotes #People Quotes #Black Quotes

“From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do.”
“Iâ€™m confiscating your hair dryerâ€”youâ€™ve fried your brain.”
“The meaning of life is to get meaning for life.”
“...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.”
“If Richard Branson had worn a pair of steel-rimmed glasses, a double-breasted suit and shaved off his beard, I would have taken him seriously. As it was I couldn't . . .”
“Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.”
“Press junkets are incredibly annoying. You sit in a chair for three to six hours and have different journalists shuttle in for three minutes at a time, asking cheesy movie questions to get a quick sound bite - and that's their only objective. You can't really move or eat. You're just stuck there. It's pressure, constant pressure.”
“I once walked in on my grandparents making love...And that's why I don't eat raisins.”

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