I always feel like I'm warring with my womanhood and wanting the world to be better, and with my blackness - which is the opposite of whiteness.

I look for a man who respects my womanhood and doesn't make me feel like I have to be a stereotype. Like a housewife.

I'm always thinking about what a black lady would think about what I'm doing, just because I feel like they have such great taste, mostly because as black women, we've spent a lot of time downloading what a white male narrative is, so in my head, I'm like, 'If a black woman likes it, if she responds to it, then it's probably pretty damn great.'

As an executive producer, I feel really lucky.

Blackness is not a monolith. We are not homogenous people; we are not all the same.

Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.