The thing about New York stories that many storytellers often forget is that they can take place anywhere in the world. That's… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
I do not believe in things like ghosts or astrology or gods who care if you eat shellfish, so I feel unwaveringly… — 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
In thinking about the end of the world, it's only fair to be rigorous and think about whether it would even be… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
We seem to reserve a special rage in this world for those whose ability to be unafraid in pursuit of something new… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
It may make you feel nice to pretend that the societies that gave rise to the modern world were ones of pure… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
I feel very drawn to characters who hide themselves and take great pains to disguise themselves from the world. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
The world isn't on a moral decline, because there was never a time when the world was particularly morally superior. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
In a world in which man-made and natural disasters are only multiplying by the day, it's important to remember that we haven't… — 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
