I definitely felt the desire to, like - I definitely knew there was an elsewhere. I definitely knew that, like, if I… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent or child. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
I thought I'd get an MBA, and then I could be anything. And I'd write on the side. That was the idea. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
I thought that marketing was a way to be creative in business but quickly learned all creative stuff happens at the ad agency. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
When I first started going out to lesbian clubs, I felt a very binary recreation of hetero culture. There are butches and femmes, and… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
I was always going to direct. I wasn't going to hand my characters over to anyone else. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
For me, books were my source of affirmation. Alice Walker, Audrey Lord - it was these authors who wrote about their experiences. It was… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
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… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
We shouldn't be discriminating against each other. The whole 'light skin versus dark skin' is an idea we need to break down. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you. — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
Each moment is defined by a multitude of histories, the past constantly converging upon us, perpetually decaying and reforming itself on the steady pulse… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
