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Michaela Coel Quotes

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We need to encourage black women to know that they are authors of their own destiny, that they have important stories to tell, and that they are capable, so magically capable, of writing them and creating important pieces of work that will live forever in history.

Women Black Back Young Write Head

I don't write with this thing in the back of my head about carrying the weight of young black women on my shoulders.

Life Car Black My Life Skin Colour

Black isn't something I became after a car crash that I've been dealing with ever since. I'd like the colour of my skin to not be a factor in my life at all.

Life Sad Class Write Working Show

I wanted to write a show about an estate that wasn't sad or morbid, like a lot of shows portray working class life to be.

I took what I was given in Christianity and put it into my secular, hedonistic life.

Life Christianity Secular Given Took

The idea of wanting to do something that's completely natural and then having to repress it is something that I find fascinating.

Find Natural Something Wanting Idea

I don't think we should be presentable or present ourselves for the sake of others.

Think Present Others Ourselves Sake

When I was 18, I suddenly became very, very religious. I became an evangelical Christian; I was celibate for five years.

Christian Years Five Religious Very

I wrote a play at drama school, which was a dark comedy - people laughed and cried. And then my script of one of the shows was picked up by a comedy sketch company... so then I had to write comedy.

School People Comedy Dark Play Up

Being fetishized because of my skin? I've definitely encountered that wall of people.

People Wall Skin Being Because

I'm way too honest. It can backfire.

One thing I am quite passionate about is the absence of dark-skinned women in the media, so I have a passion to show dark-skinned women as beautiful, as vulnerable, as people who can be sexually desired and loving people, because it is never really seen on TV.

Women Passion Beautiful I Am People

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