Instead of asking for permission, we're seeing more artists and creatives taking control over the stories we tell. — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
I'm just hoping that, as more black artists take control of the narratives that are out there, more opportunities will come around for artists of colour. We want to make the same waves that the white artists do. — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
I feel there's a really raw quality in the Chicago theater community that's really special. — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
Instead of asking for permission, we're seeing more artists and creatives taking control over the stories we tell. — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
Most Sagittariuses start off really reserved. You gotta check people out, see what they're about, and then once we decide you're cool, then that's… — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
Seeing all of these beautiful brown faces and having that patience for them to live in whatever it was that they were living in;… — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
Like, no, I can really be queen of the universe. I can be president. I can be, I don't know, an alien from Venus.… — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
I'm very grateful that 'Beale Street' was that opportunity for me to be introduced to the industry in that way and have some doors… — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
When you hear these stories about different cases of police brutality, don't even just make that person just another hashtag, another statistic. That is… — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
To see a young black woman being loved for just who she is - her hair, her skin, her clothes - is powerful. — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
The only thing I'm sure of is that I want to keep doing work that speaks to me. — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
I'm not going to sit around and wait for some old studio executive to decide my career path. — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
Making films is such a large, collaborative effort and there's so many people who are a part of it. — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
I remember growing up and feeling like I didn't really see much of myself represented. Or if I did, there were only a few… — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
