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My brother's death picked up my life and put it down somewhere else. I had an image of myself in my mind as a working artist, and when he died, all of that changed.

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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.

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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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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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Grief is a very complicated monster. There's no real exorcising of it. It has a different form every day.

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

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

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I don't feel like a hero.

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I hope that audiences understand that there is a precariousness to black lives in this country that we need to address, that there has always been a precariousness to black lives in this country that we need to address. In fact, our country is built on the precariousness of black lives, the disposability of black lives.

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I worked at 'POV' for five years before I told one person about my brother.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: Unknown

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