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I never write something and consciously embed political commentary or any other kind of commentary. I just try to get the characters into a room or out of a room, or onto the plane, or through the grocery store. The political stuff, the class stuff, the gender stuff, is in the air, it's in their interactions, because it's there for all of us. ”
Being a young black man, observing and sensing the need for race equality and women's rights, I wrote about what was important to me. ”
One mistake is that managers practice position-ship rather than leadership. They focus on constituency, the people they need the most and depend on, only caring about how they are viewed by the leaders above them, thereby following position-ship. ”
Equality, equality, equality. I'm all about equality, that's the main thing and the only thing I'm about. ”
I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman. ”
I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature. ”
It's not often that a strong female role comes across one's desk, unfortunately, but it's getting better. ”
I never hated Ronda. She's always talked about me; she did that to promote herself because when she started, nobody knew her, and she talked about me for people to know who she is. And she opened the doors for women's MMA. ”
I'll always prefer to play with women and hang out with women, and I'll always be a feminist. ”
I'd say it's far more challenging to be female and be a showrunner. People are not surprised to see a black person running this show, but the female aspect is the thing that I get asked about. ”