Author: Dee Rees

Quotes

I think art always comments on the time and place it was created.

I think art always comments on the time and place it was created.

- 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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