- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Strong Island' has been a labor of love and dedication on the part of so many people, that it's just an incredible recognition to be honored. And to be the first trans director - and, I believe, the first African-American trans director - to be nominated for an Academy Award is incredibly, incredibly special to me.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Strong Island' is slang for Long Island, New York. And it really grew out of - what may surprise people, it really grew out of the very vibrant hip-hop scene that, you know, is located and still generates artists out of Long Island.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black lives are too easy to take in America because we don't want to question why people are so afraid of black and brown people to begin with. And that's what I want 'Strong Island' to do.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
White communities - and I exempt poor white communities from this - have power over their representation. White people have the ability to define themselves, to exert their agency in a way that they get to be believed. No one believes black people. No one. Until a white person vouches for them.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be easier for people to grasp that gender, sex, and sexual orientation are different things if we had as much imagination in real life as we do when we are making our movies.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would hate for people to think that 'Strong Island' is just about a family's grief. It is about a family's grief, yes, but it is also an interrogation of our criminal justice system.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important that people understand that 'Strong Island' is just as much about this claim of reasonable fear and our need to interrogate reasonable fear as it is about my family's grief.
- Black Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
People come up and say, 'Thank you' for showing a black family loving their masculine-presenting child and for undoing the myth of black people as being rabidly homophobic.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I present as gender-conforming on screen, but some people need a little extra information.
- Nov 07, 2020
There are people who get to be three-dimensional humans in the United States, and there are people who do not.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.
- Courageously
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- Nov 07, 2020