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There are people who don't have running water and who have live sewage in their front yards. And it was not until representation was present that those neighbors were actually able to be served. If you have no one at the table who is representing your interest and who is concerned about you, then you know that you will not be represented in the result.

The New York Times
1d ago

I'm more interested in depicting a reality that I'm more familiar with, which is intergenerational debt, struggling, single parenthood, and it's more interesting to me to write stories with characters who subvert these expectations of what an immigrant and a woman should and can be in America.

1w ago

And when you heard more compelling, you understood that to mean that I needed to write about hardship and overcoming trauma or pain, um and something that reflected or talked more about my identity as a black girl, a black girl from Detroit, a black girl from a low-income community, a black girl who was first-generation college.

1mo ago

You know, when I came up, I could watch a show like Johnny Carson or Merv Griffin. And for weeks at a time, maybe never see a minority perform. And, you know, they're out there. So my dream was to one day grow up and show the other side of show business.

1mo ago

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