The reason I became a writer is because I like sitting in dark rooms by myself, not standing on stage and talking… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
I was just desperate to make stuff. That's really what I learned about myself. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every time I sit down and write, I'm like, 'This is a miserable experience. What a life I've made for myself. Why… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
Yeah, I just started taking - I took my first dose of Zoloft on my 40th birthday. It was my 40th birthday… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
I promised myself I would never own a car again after moving to New York in the mid-aughts and living without the… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
To me, even in the most miserable times, I've always found ways to laugh and enjoy myself and time with my family… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
To be very good at football, you need to be able to snuff out the voice inside of you that says it's better for… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think that was one of the reasons I loved 'Moonlight.' I don't remember if there's a single white person in that movie. It's… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
Bravery is a virtue people revere in dead soldiers and then turn to disparage in someone extending her hand to a weirdo. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
Cutoff culture,' 'the friendzone:' these are just neologisms used by men to mask or soften the reality that they have been - and have… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
The reason I became a writer is because I like sitting in dark rooms by myself, not standing on stage and talking to people. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
My mother told me she thought I had clinical depression when I was 19 years old. And I thought, you're crazy because, you know,… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is an appetite for things that are different and a story with Black characters that's going to appeal to a lot of people. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
The hostility directed at writers who cover minority beats in America is solid proof that those people are doing important work. But that work… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
It should go without saying that there's no outside arbiter of who 'deserves' which woman, or of what one 'deserves' to receive from a… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Black experience in America now includes everything, all the way up to being the president of the United States.' But there's genres for… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
The thing about New York stories that many storytellers often forget is that they can take place anywhere in the world. That's because for… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
