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> [I was lucky enough to date my first love for five years. We had a very romantic, very dramatic teenage love affair. And it has impacted me because I have married a man who is simply the grownup version of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amma-asante/i-was-lucky-enough-to-date-my-first-love-for-five-years-we-had-a-very/)

[Amma Asante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amma-asante/)

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## More by Amma Asante

> [When you're in political times, you want to reflect those political times, and sometimes going back to our past is the best way to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amma-asante/when-you-re-in-political-times-you-want-to-reflect-those-political/)

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> [I knew I wanted to make a movie that looked decadent and expensive. I knew we would have to make every penny stretch and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amma-asante/i-knew-i-wanted-to-make-a-movie-that-looked-decadent-and-expensive-i/)

[Amma Asante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amma-asante/)

> [What I hope is that this wider pattern of films about slavery that's emerging isn't just a fad but evidence that we've turned a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amma-asante/what-i-hope-is-that-this-wider-pattern-of-films-about-slavery-that-s/)

[Amma Asante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amma-asante/)

> [Don't let a culture or society's rules define who you are; you define who you are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amma-asante/don-t-let-a-culture-or-society-s-rules-define-who-you-are-you-define/)

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> [When I look in the mirror I see the woman I knew I wanted to be as a child. When I was a young…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amma-asante/when-i-look-in-the-mirror-i-see-the-woman-i-knew-i-wanted-to-be-as-a/)

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> [What I wanted to do was put a woman of color, front and center, in my movie combining a lot of themes that were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amma-asante/what-i-wanted-to-do-was-put-a-woman-of-color-front-and-center-in-my/)

[Amma Asante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amma-asante/)

> [Don't take no as a full stop, treat it like a comma.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amma-asante/don-t-take-no-as-a-full-stop-treat-it-like-a-comma/)

[Amma Asante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amma-asante/)

> [Sitting in the back row of a full audience watching one of my movies, and hearing them cry and hearing them laugh in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amma-asante/sitting-in-the-back-row-of-a-full-audience-watching-one-of-my-movies/)

[Amma Asante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amma-asante/)

> [You can take me and then you can take a blond white man with blue eyes, and you could say, "Fundamentally, they're different." And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amma-asante/you-can-take-me-and-then-you-can-take-a-blond-white-man-with-blue/)

[Amma Asante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amma-asante/)

> [I was lucky enough to date my first love for five years. We had a very romantic, very dramatic teenage love affair. And it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amma-asante/i-was-lucky-enough-to-date-my-first-love-for-five-years-we-had-a-very/)

[Amma Asante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amma-asante/)

> [There are important differences that mean we appreciate each other, not tolerate each other. Race creates this idea that there's this massive difference. So…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amma-asante/there-are-important-differences-that-mean-we-appreciate-each-other/)

[Amma Asante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amma-asante/)

> [I'm a girl, and I celebrate being a girl, and it was really important to me to celebrate the beauty that I could create…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amma-asante/i-m-a-girl-and-i-celebrate-being-a-girl-and-it-was-really-important/)

[Amma Asante](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amma-asante/)

> [To really talk about African story, and teach this story, you have to teach that tribes were actually nations. You have to teach that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amma-asante/to-really-talk-about-african-story-and-teach-this-story-you-have-to/)

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> [As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amma-asante/as-people-of-color-we-re-left-out-of-history-history-is-sort-of-told/)

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> [The reality is that we’re in very politicized times. The complete antithesis of Obama is Trump. We are in very polarized times. People are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amma-asante/the-reality-is-that-we-re-in-very-politicized-times-the-complete/)

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