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Being born gay, black, and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to be a gay black female is.

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My family still lives in Chicago: my mother, my sister, my nephew, my family is there. So even though I am not living there, I feel very close to it, and I visit very often.

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The things that make us different, those are our superpowers.

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To be a black person is to come from a long bloodline of survivors and storytellers, with a resilience that people can't even comprehend.

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If you think you aren't valid for whatever reason, let my existence and the way the world embraces my existence tell you that you are valid. You deserve to look, live, and walk through the world however you see fit. That's why I find it extremely important to be so out, so black, and so myself.

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I hope that people will say that 'she told the truth, she told her truth, she wasn't afraid to live her truth, and she wasn't afraid to live her truth out loud.' That's what I want my legacy to look like.

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I'm proud to carry that torch and be like, 'I'm gay! I'm black! Hang your dreams on me. Hang your hopes on me. I'll carry them to the best of my ability.'

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I'm writing my story so that others might see fragments of themselves.

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Being on Netflix lets us be experimental. We can do crazy things.

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My mother was born into a segregated America. How crazy is that?

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: May 17th, 1984

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