When I started, it was all meter maids or the sassy nurse, or the sassy receptionist in the hospital. And I felt like: Are those the only jobs that large, black women have?
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Culturally, it is commonplace for African women to work.
Black people have been working hard for decades.
I definitely intend to create my own work in the future so that we don't have to keep saying, We don't have work for black women.'
My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work.
Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.
In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids.
There are hundreds of stories I've heard from black women from my generation, generations before me, and the next, that have never been given an opportunity to fulfill their dreams.
All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and very diverse, living very complex and diverse lives. That point cannot be made enough.
I've been working almost 20 years, and I think I've worked with maybe one black director of photography in that time. Maybe two women directors or DPs. Maybe. And I've done a lot of TV. That's a lot of people I've worked with.
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
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