I've never been prepared for the spotlight. It makes me incredibly nervous. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
If you're a woman, if you're a person of color, if you're queer, the 1930s were terrible. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
Almost as soon as I started reading 'Erasure,' I wanted to adapt it. — 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 Body Copy Share Image
I had a horrible 2020. Besides the Covid thing, I had a big professional failing: I came very close to getting a… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
I think that 'The Good Place,' for instance, is a sitcom about ethical philosophy. Sounds crazy, but it worked. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, police violence and white supremacist violence are something that you can set your watch to in the United States of America. — Cord Jefferson America Copy Share Image
I've come to think about my heart the way others think about god, an all-powerful force I can't see that could wipe… — 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… — 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 Comedy Copy Share Image
It's exhausting to always be writing and thinking about a new person being racist or sexist or otherwise awful. It's exhausting to… — Cord Jefferson Dignity 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 Dignity Copy Share Image
Cutoff culture,' 'the friendzone:' these are just neologisms used by men to mask or soften the reality that they have been -… — Cord Jefferson Culture Copy Share Image
For several years, I made my unofficial beat the stories, struggles, and politics of blacks in America. I wrote about other things,… — Cord Jefferson America 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
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
Very frequently Black people and other people of color in this country are taught that they need to be stoic and keep… — Cord Jefferson Black people 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… — Cord Jefferson City 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… — Cord Jefferson Adversity Copy Share Image
As a defense attorney in Ohio, my dad would accept food in lieu of money from his poorer clients, and work into… — Cord Jefferson Dad Copy Share Image
I love '12 Years a Slave.' I really like 'Django Unchained.' I want to make clear that I'm not saying these movies… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
I feel both happy and sad in my life... Life is neither comedy nor tragedy. And so I just wanted to work… — Cord Jefferson Comedy Copy Share Image
I'm afraid of heights such that my palms begin to sweat when I go up high flights of stairs in shopping malls. — 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 Honor Copy Share Image
Probably a lot of people of color in this country can empathize with this idea that you need to hide who you… — Cord Jefferson Country Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I like making and watching TV is that time allows you to be discursive and digressive and… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have loved Erika Alexander since I first saw her in 'Living Single' when I was a kid. I was obsessed with… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
Like any major clothing company, Polo hawks a lifestyle - or at least the dream of a lifestyle - just as much… — Cord Jefferson Business 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,… — Cord Jefferson Clinical depression 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… — Cord Jefferson Black people Copy Share Image
Beware bros trying to inform you what they 'deserve.' A hurt man can be a handful - but a hurt man inspired… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
For a few weeks one summer, when I was about eight or nine, my family and I road-tripped from our home in… — Cord Jefferson Family Copy Share Image
Art is subjective. Just because an executive, or even if five executives say that they don't like the idea and that they… — Cord Jefferson Art Copy Share Image
I started out as a journalist for about 8 or 9 years, and then I started working in film and television in 2014. — Cord Jefferson Film 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 Astrology 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 Birthday Copy Share Image
There's an audience and market for depictions of Black life that are as broad and as deep as any other depictions of… — Cord Jefferson Audience Copy Share Image
When beginning any career, it's important to highlight the experiences and skills you bring to the table that others can't. — Cord Jefferson Beginning Copy Share Image
