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There is a difference between being offended and being prejudiced and even being bigoted against. There's a difference between that and racism.

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Black people are experiencing a systemic disadvantage, and it goes back to slavery, which was not that long ago.

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When you're part of a society where you're constantly having to define your identity and sort of negotiate with what the mainstream culture thinks you are, you have less energy and time to figure out who you are when you go home at night.

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We get caught in our little silos and end up working against ourselves. And I think social media culture really encourages that, because you're really just shouting into a void hoping someone picks up on what you're saying.

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We like to think of the '60s as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X and a little bit of friction - no, there were all of these different groups. There was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panthers, Martin and Malcolm, but also the Whitney Youngs of the world, the Bayard Rustins of the world.

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I wanted to be a filmmaker since I was a kid. I always did things that took me a little closer to that.

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I took an internship at Focus Features while I was in film school. I was really interested in how specialty movies were marketed and found their audience despite being about topics that were outside of the mainstream.

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I think I'll always be making movies that intend to say something new.

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One of the most powerful lessons I learned is when you make an argument in a film, you have to make sure both characters are right.

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There is no monolithic black culture. It's completely different for someone born in Harlem to someone born in Houston or London with one exception, which is that people contributing to black culture have the experience of being black.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: May 7th, 1983

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