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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I don't think I present as gender-conforming on screen, but some people need a little extra information.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ '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.

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• ‟ What 'Strong Island' does is bring a historical perspective and help people understand that what we're treating as a modern-day phenomenon is actually not modern. It's actually quite old.

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• ‟ Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ There are people who get to be three-dimensional humans in the United States, and there are people who do not.

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