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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in a very multi-racial, multi-cultural schooling system. I had a really delightful childhood. I was a jock. I became a very competitive swimmer in Zimbabwe. I was a swimmer, a tennis player, a hockey player. Then, when I was 13, I joined a Children's Performing Arts workshop in Zimbabwe.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Macalester in Minnesota to study social psychology, the study of why people do what they do. I was really looking at race, population, gender, and how we psychologically function in a way that affects our societal outcomes around those issues.
- Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
We moved to Zimbabwe when I was five, some years after Zimbabwe had gained independence.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why can't black women on stage tell stories that can affect white men in the audience?
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's something I've constantly found shocking - all this astounding talent amongst black women that never gets to be seen or heard.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never consider myself a minority. I see people who look like me in Barbados, in Trinidad, in Haiti, in London, and in Brooklyn. So I don't know what the heck anyone means when they call me a 'minority.' There's something about that word to me. It just minimalizes people.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a child of academics.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to see women of African descent shine.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are used to women's narratives being defined through the male perspective. I challenge that as a concept.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my work is on the stage, you can be rested assured I'm going to make use of it as a platform for activism as much as possible.
- About
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want women and girls of African descent and of color to be able to not have to keep searching for stories about themselves.
- Grad School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to grad school because I wanted to learn the rules so I would know how to break them. Breaking the rules is saying, 'I'm breaking in, OK? I'm breaking in your very comfortable little house over here, and I'm going to take a room.'
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Harare, Zimbabwe. And I had a pretty idyllic childhood. I felt that I was kind of this outspoken girl, I was considered. I was a girl who talked a lot and didn't think my voice had any less value than anyone around me. Apparently, that was strange.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often feel like a nutty professor, like I'm going to try this experiment and see if it works. My hypothesis is, people in the West can absorb African women stories without any shaken or stirred mixer. It can come directly from the source.
- Rest
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- Nov 07, 2020
You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world!
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020