Sometimes your music sounds like there’s too much inside you.
Maybe even you couldn’t get it all out.
Maybe that’s why you died.
Like you exploded from the inside.


Ava Dellaira

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The most liberating moment, is the moment you finally let go.
AVA HARRISON
I think that if we really want to break it down, that non-black filmmakers have had many, many years...
AVA DUVERNAY
My interest as an artist is to illuminate the lives of black folks. I definitely am focused on films...
AVA DUVERNAY
Oh gosh, I'm completely allergic to historical dramas. Particularly those around the civil-right...
AVA DUVERNAY
Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we...
AVA DUVERNAY
My next project is 'Venus Vs,' which is a documentary that follows tennis star Venus William...
AVA DUVERNAY
Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is...
AVA DUVERNAY
Nonviolence is pretty ballsy, pretty advanced weaponry.
AVA DUVERNAY
Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistak...
AVA GARDNER
I have only one rule in acting--trust the director, and give him heart and soul.
AVA GARDNER
I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifull...
AVA DUVERNAY
The truth will set you free, they say, but believe me, nothing will set you free.
AVA FARMEHRI
I like silence. Aesthetically, I feel strangled by the fast cutting and a wall of sound. And I think...
AVA DUVERNAY
I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away al...
AVA DUVERNAY
All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and...
AVA DUVERNAY
When you have to face up to the fact that marriage to the man you love is really over, that's very t...
AVA GARDNER
I want more girls to be able to see themselves behind the camera creating images we all enjoy, and I...
AVA DUVERNAY
If your dream is only about you, it's too small.
AVA DUVERNAY
There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black wom...
AVA DUVERNAY
It's not enough even to have one black Barbie... because black women are not a monolith.
AVA DUVERNAY
I made my first film when I was 35, so I firmly believe that you don't have to be one thing in l...
AVA DUVERNAY
What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.
AVA GARDNER
I make films about black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a black man, d...
AVA DUVERNAY
If you're doing something outside of dominant culture, there's not an easy place for you. Yo...
AVA DUVERNAY
Dragons have wild hearts that need the open sky
AVA RICHARDSON
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