Best quotes by Ava DuVernay on Women

Checkout quotes by Ava DuVernay on Women

• ‟ It's not enough even to have one black Barbie... because black women are not a monolith.

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• ‟ Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we want. We've been really indoctrinated with this culture of permission. I think it's true for women, and I think it's true for people of color. It's historic, and it's unfortunate and has somehow become part of our DNA. But that time has passed.

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• ‟ I think that black people making art, women making art, and certainly black women making art is a disruptive endeavor - and it's one that I enjoy extremely.

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• ‟ I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.

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• ‟ In Hollywood, there is one dominant voice. It is a white, male, straight gaze. When I talk about positive portrayals of black people and women, I'm saying complexity. I'm not saying goody-two-shoes, everything's okay. No. The positive view of me is to see me as I am: the 'good,' the 'bad,' the gray. That is a positive portrayal.

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• ‟ There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It's a reflection as opposed to an interpretation.

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• ‟ I make films about black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a black man, doesn't mean that he can't see them as a white man or she can't see them as a white woman.

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• ‟ I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults.

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