Best quotes by Lena Waithe on Black

Checkout quotes by Lena Waithe on Black

• ‟ I've never been a person that has had fear of, like, 'Oh, I don't want to be the poster child for all black lesbian women.' I don't know. I want to be someone in the public eye that they can be proud of.

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• ‟ Being a black lesbian myself, I roll my eyes a little bit when I see black lesbian characters on shows where it's purely there for decoration. You can just hear it in the writers room... 'What if we make her a lesbian?'

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• ‟ My aesthetic is very black.

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• ‟ The cool thing about dope black style becoming in style is that the industry has no choice but to try and reduplicate that.

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• ‟ As a black woman in the industry, you really do have to hold your head higher, stick your chest out, be kind and polite and generous even when you don't want to be sometimes. I learned that and, also, just to never take no for an answer.

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• ‟ I think that for the most part, black people specifically have sort of been used as props in TV shows as a way to move story along or as a way to make things more entertaining.

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• ‟ I'm a black woman, so I'm obviously not going to write something where women aren't at the forefront.

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