“Its really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.” KnowsWholeCharacterAbleInterestingTelevisionTheaterReally InterestingArcs Author:Yael Stone
“By no longer operating out of a place of fear. So if you see me on a carpet with my arms and legs out glistening, or my midriff exposed, it's a reminder to myself and the world that I know I'm beautiful.” IfsKnowsWorldBeautifulArmsLegsExposedRemindersCarpetArms And Legs Author:Danielle Brooks
“We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. Theres a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.” SelfReasonEnergySidesDarkDealsShadowAspectDirectReason WhyCarrieAvoidingConfrontationDark SideShadow SelfShadow Side Author:Lorraine Toussaint
“I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers, and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.” PeopleChildrenClassTeacherMiddleGrewGrew UpMiddle ClassLibrarianTreasured Author:Lorraine Toussaint
“As a modern woman, there are things I take for granted, and that shows up in the way I sit, the way I walk, the way I think, and what I know to be possible.” ThinkingKnowsWayShowsWalksModernGrantedModern Woman Author:Lorraine Toussaint
“I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.” I CanPrideProudAmelia Author:Lorraine Toussaint
“When you eliminate vanity from an art form, and I would think that this would be any art form, what is left is an opportunity to be incredibly naked and truthful.” ThinkingArtWould BeFormOpportunityLeftNakedVanityTruthful Author:Lorraine Toussaint
“In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it ... There is this sort of dialectic that you could tease out, that even in this overdeveloped late-capitalist world, that boredom was still this kind of critical energy that you could work on and try to theorize and then act on, to find other kinds of belonging, other kinds of desire, other kinds of life.” WorldTryingKindDesireUniverseEnergyDangerBoredomBelongingTease Author:McKenzie Wark
“Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.” RealityMaterialsFundamentals Author:Anton Zeilinger