All Quotes

We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system. ”

The justice system isn't meant to work for people of color in this country. ”

Everyone in the street where I grew up was given the same message: You can be anything; you can do anything. That wasn't extraordinary; that was ordinary for us. My folks didn't believe in black exceptionalism. There's nothing exceptional about 'You can have that, too' - except when it comes to justice. You can't have that. ”

If my making history makes it easier for a trans kid at home somewhere to feel more at home in their skin, then I'm so excited about that. ”

Our blackness and how to survive being black in America was something that our parents instilled in us extraordinarily well. ”

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. ”

I have a lot of surrogate parents, but there's no one like your mother. ”

My impression is that the Academy is really sincere about moving toward a more inclusive and representative Hollywood. ”

I'm incredibly proud to be the first trans director to be nominated for an Oscar. ”

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. ”