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As artists, we thrive when we can express our comfort and our discomfort. If a certain scene is really challenging for us, if we're in an environment where we feel safe, we're able to do our work.

From Aja Naomi King

I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.

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The problem of sexism is getting better, but I don't know if it's getting better fast enough. We see more roles for women that don't entirely revolve around the way in which they function in a man's life, but typically those women are almost always white, and even then, there are only a few of them.

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Studying acting has been personally enriching because it has taught me to take the time to imagine what someone else's life experience might be like. To look deeply at how our pasts and the circumstances of our early childhoods mold us as people.

From Aja Naomi King

Sometimes people just need to feel heard, and being an actor has taught me to really listen.

From Aja Naomi King

The advice that I was always given when asking for advice about acting was that if I could imagine myself doing anything else, anything else at all, then go do that.

From Aja Naomi King

Create something for yourself that you feel proud of, that you are in control of, that gives you a better understanding of the type of artist you want to be.

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I come from a family of storytellers. Growing up, my father would make up these stories about how he and my mother met and fell in love, and my mother would tell me these elaborately visual stories of growing up as a kid in New York, and I was always so enrapt.

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My hair routine is to let someone else do it.

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To relax, I love sitting back and turning my brain off and watching TV.

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