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Ava DuVernay

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If the KKK was smart enough, they would've created gangsta rap because it's such a caricatur...
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Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family...
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The black characters on TV are the sidekicks, or they're insignificant. You could put all the bl...
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I am Charles Mingus. Half-black man. Yellow man. Half-yellow. Not even yellow, nor white enough to p...
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White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not b...
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It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-c...
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I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to...
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You listen to Black Sabbath with Ronnie James Dio in it, and it's not Black Sabbath. They should...
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There are so few roles out there. And even if it is a film that could be led by a black actress, how...
OCTAVIA SPENCER
It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.
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Yes, black is slimming, but it's not always youthful. The right tone of red, however, is flatter...
TWIGGY
It affects me even more because I wondered why are all the families black? Why are they all black?
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A lot of people are quick to say that saying 'black lives matter' makes you anti-cop. All li...
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It felt very fresh to me, and it feels very contemporary - this idea that conflict's not being a...
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Black women . . . work because their husbands can't make enough money at their jobs to keep everythi...
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Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate...
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I would say I'm black because my parents said I'm black. I'm black because my mother'...
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It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every plac...
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That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no...
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There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do...
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I know seeing bigger women looking great would have mattered to me when I was younger - that's w...
AIDY BRYANT
I'm always thinking about what a black lady would think about what I'm doing, just because I...
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How do you observe something you can't see? This is the basic question of somebody who's int...
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The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't thi...
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I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like th...
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If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other l...
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Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 w...
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In tragedy, it's hard to find a good resolution; it's not black and white: it's a big fo...
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I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle ...
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Black Barbie? Nah… I’m an unapologetic Exquisite Black Queen who’s intelligent, creative, cour...
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I try to avoid wearing black because sometimes it's the easy option. But I'm young, so it...
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Black Women and Black Girls are Exquisite Beauty in EVERY Shade.
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We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black...
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God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they...
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Part of our tradition as black women is that we are universalists. Black children, yellow children, ...
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Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not.
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There are so many aspects of human sexuality that we're afraid to talk about, because people sti...
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Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple sto...
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I've never understood people who say they're not a practicing Jew. You never hear a black gu...
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Police are killing black men. Mona Scott-Young is killing black women.
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I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't n...
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The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black w...
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As much as I think it is necessary and desirable for white people to have an expanded view of the bl...
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I don't even want to touch on the topic of black quarterback, because I think this game is bigge...
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There is not enough faith in black music at a high level.
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It's not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins.
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It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this ...
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One of the key differences between galaxies with super massive black holes is whether or not the bla...
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There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality....
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To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play b...
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It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.
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American television, for all its faults, still has a black presence in shows and even in commercials...
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I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical backgro...
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There's not too many rich black people in this world.
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Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white m...
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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...The fact that it's black transforms it. Has the same effect on women that black stockings have on...
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The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's ...
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street...
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Black Moms create magic, so that makes me magical.
STEPHANIE LAHART
I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one...
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You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.
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IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED!
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oh, the heartbreakingly beautiful
tender weight of being human.
AVA.
remember you are capable of the most powerful thing in the universe.

you are capable of l...
AVA.
i swallowed the syllables of your name
and i was full.
AVA.
i just want to be honest about my feelings without destroying everything.
AVA.
i am changing
and i am loving change.
AVA
i am awake and alive
and swollen and heavy
with love.
AVA
i am changing
and i am loving change.
AVA.
no one needs love from you
more than you need love from you.

love yourself first, AVA.
i am soft again.
there is water and it surrounds me.
there is feeling and i can feel it. AVA.
love yourself first,
and you will always be in love.
AVA.
every choice i have ever made after you existed
has been dependent on exactly
how close i ...
AVA.
there's always been a little sadness inside my happiness.

i've never been able to separat...
AVA.
and sadness clung to me
because she did not know
how to be alone.
AVA.
i'm so hooked
on how your mind works,
on what you notice,
on everything that excites ...
AVA
you giver of light.
you lover of love.

you beautiful
beautiful
human being...
AVA.
do not let anyone in
until they love you so fiercely,
you have no defense against their lo...
AVA.
i am soft again.
there is water and it surrounds me.
there is feeling and i can feel it. AVA
you have outgrown this skin.
stop trying to hold it in.
stop trying to hold it together. AVA.
you wanted it all to make sense
and you wanted the most complicated answer,
but the answer...
AVA.
i am awake and alive
and swollen and heavy
with love.
AVA.
hold company with yourself so sacred
that even when you are alone,
you are whole.
AVA.
i'm so hooked
on how your mind works,
on what you notice,
on everything that excites ...
AVA.
some people are so deep
you fall into them
and you never stop falling.
AVA.
you came in slowly like the fog
and consumed me.
AVA.
i want so much to touch you
where my hands cannot.
AVA.
we get brave.
we move.
we believe.
we keep going.
AVA.
you giver of light.
you lover of love.

you beautiful
beautiful
human being...
AVA
everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the...
AVA.
we get brave.
we move.
we believe.
we keep going.
AVA
i can't hold onto love.
i'm not gentle enough.

i always end up
crushing the thi...
AVA.
the opening,
the breaking,
the falling apart
is always so quick.

the hurti...
AVA.
i open for you like a flower.
i let you in like a new day.
AVA
everything i know about love
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the...
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i took it off.
i did not want to carry it with me anymore.
AVA
i took it off.
i did not want to carry it with me anymore.
AVA.
i feel everything.
i do not know how to un-feel
and to not feel
is to stop the sun.
AVA
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Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
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Because once you're afraid of one thing, you can get scared of a lot of stuff.
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Truth is beautiful, no matter what the truth is. Even if it's scary or bad. It is beauty simply beca...
AVA DELLAIRA
There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,” she said. “That...
AVA DELLAIRA
There's more to life than being a passenger.
AVA DELLAIRA
But we aren't transparent. If we want someone to know us, we have to tell them stuff.
AVA DELLAIRA
I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear...
AVA DELLAIRA
When we are in love, we are both completely in danger and completely saved.
AVA DELLAIRA
You can be noble and brave and beautiful and still find yourself falling.
AVA DELLAIRA
What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.
AVA GARDNER
All of a sudden we were out of the lot and on the highway next to the mountains, flying. I put my ha...
AVA DELLAIRA
Dragons have wild hearts that need the open sky
AVA RICHARDSON
I loved the feeling of being alone together in the car, like we could go anywhere we wanted. Just us...
AVA DELLAIRA
The time is not always now for everything.
AVA RICHARDSON
Our phone bills were astronomical, and when I found the letters Frank wrote me the other day, the to...
AVA GARDNER
You usually find that this is the most romantic sex, because it starts out with long, luscious kisse...
DR AVA CADELL
When you know you're never going to see someone again, you want to leave her wanting you - and you'l...
DR AVA CADELL
There's a correlation between a woman's bottom lip and her vagina. Sucking gently on her lip will ma...
DR AVA CADELL