My mother told me she thought I had clinical depression when I was 19 years old. And I thought, you're crazy because,… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
The world takes from us relentlessly. It takes our friends and first loves. It takes our parents. It takes our faith. It… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
When I think of my mother, I can't help but think of the head-spinning ignorance she endured to marry my dad and… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
I fear no longer being able to find glimmers of joy and hope in friends' weddings, the birth of children, the contours… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
My mother was raised in a very, very racist environment. She used to tell me that her father was such a bigot… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
One of my father's better tendencies is to take in human beings who have somehow been led astray. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
When my German-American mother married my black-American Indian father, her dad and stepmom disowned her immediately. They would have been upset had… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
My father was a public defender when he first started his law career. — 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
