Author: Dee Rees

Quotes

When I first came out, holidays were hard. I reached a point where I didn't go home anymore. I constructed my own, kind of like, family group around Christmas.

When I first came out, holidays were hard. I reached a point where I didn't go home anymore. I constructed my own, kind of like, family group around Christmas.

- Dee Rees

There's a lot of power in saying no to big things that you don't want to do in order to say yes to the kind of things that really inspire you.

There's a lot of power in saying no to big things that you don't want to do in order to say yes to the kind of things that really inspire you.

- Dee Rees

Culture - art, music, literature - is the long game, because it's the way to change people's ideas in a more personal way.

Culture - art, music, literature - is the long game, because it's the way to change people's ideas in a more personal way.

- Dee Rees

Art makes you see people as individual, unique human beings. Art, in that way, allows us to see each other in particulate, as opposed to in aggregate.

Art makes you see people as individual, unique human beings. Art, in that way, allows us to see each other in particulate, as opposed to in aggregate.

- Dee Rees

There's a dearth of media around young black women and certainly a dearth of LGBT media for people of color.

There's a dearth of media around young black women and certainly a dearth of LGBT media for people of color.

- Dee Rees

I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer.

I've been around many different lives, many different voices. It was amazing material for a writer.

- Dee Rees

It's okay to be yourself and to love and accept yourself however you are.

It's okay to be yourself and to love and accept yourself however you are.

- Dee Rees

You don't have to make your life look like anybody else says it should look.

You don't have to make your life look like anybody else says it should look.

- Dee Rees

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