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I will never understand how so many young women can go out in the freezing cold wearing so little clothing.
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'Strong Island' has been a labor of love and dedication on the part of so many people, that it's just an incredible recognition to be honored. And to be the first trans director - and, I believe, the first African-American trans director - to be nominated for an Academy Award is incredibly, incredibly special to me.
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We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system.
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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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If I can help one family embrace their child and not displace them and throw them out, I'm happy about that.
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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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Our blackness and how to survive being black in America was something that our parents instilled in us extraordinarily well.
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I think fear has been racialised. When you get someone who says 'I was afraid' of a big black guy, that's enough to say, 'Okay, not guilty,' or, 'No indictment.' It's persisted over generations, and it needs to stop.
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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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When I was young, I didn't see anyone who was trans like me anywhere in the movies.
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Being nominated is such a tremendous honor. An Oscar win for me and for the 'Strong Island' team would be the cap to an incredible journey. But it would also mean that my brother will not disappear from history.
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The quality of festival Q&As is often a matter of chance. Sometimes the lights come up on movies I loved, and not a single meaningful question is asked. Sometimes it's the opposite.
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