Michaela Coel

I think you just have to do you, whatever that is, and not feel like you have to be a certain way…

— Michaela Coel

There always seems to be an element of faith in my writing.

— Michaela Coel

My sets are not peaceful. It's a beautiful catastrophe. I am running around like a headless chicken. I don't sleep because I…

— Michaela Coel

Inequality starts in the womb.

— Michaela Coel

I didn't know I was going to write for TV until I was suddenly writing for TV, so that kind of stuff…

— Michaela Coel

Looking back, the way I see it, there was something slightly deluded about my belief - what that meant to me -…

— Michaela Coel

Don't sit there and complain. Rub your hands together and figure out what to do.

— Michaela Coel

I don't write with this thing in the back of my head about carrying the weight of young black women on my…

— Michaela Coel

I over-write!

— Michaela Coel

'Chewing Gum Dreams' should make you look twice at the girl shouting on the bus and not just cuss her off from…

— Michaela Coel

I don't really go with the crowd. I'm the kind of person that if I heard some girls were bullying my friend…

— Michaela Coel

To see people laughing or crying or listening, then being inspired to do their own thing? I can't think of anything better…

— Michaela Coel

Now I'm steeped in this world, I keep thinking going to the theatre every week is normal, but there's a whole world…

— Michaela Coel

What dominates my life isn't the fact that I started off doing theatre. It's probably to do with Christianity, my race, the…

— Michaela Coel

There's a massive community in church. You have a real home. You can move to different parts of the world and you'll…

— Michaela Coel

'Chewing Gum' is a sitcom set on an estate in east London. Its central character is a girl from a Pentecostal background…

— Michaela Coel

I've always liked using humor, but what I had to with 'Chewing Gum' was take out a lot of darkness so it…

— Michaela Coel

When I think of the things that I want to write, I can never say them out loud because I know how…

— Michaela Coel

I believe there are some great things that I've taken from the Bible in terms of loving the world and trying to…

— Michaela Coel

I want to make sure I'm climbing because there's no back-up. No one in my family has a house, and, regardless of…

— Michaela Coel

I took what I was given in Christianity and put it into my secular, hedonistic life.

— Michaela Coel

'Moesha' is very strong in my brain. The black women on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' are very strong in my brain.

— Michaela Coel

'Chewing Gum' ages me 15 years every time I do it - it's insane.

— Michaela Coel

I don't know what it would have been like to grow up with a man in the house.

— Michaela Coel

I feel angry with myself the way I handled the Bible and Christianity. A lot more people are more normal with Christianity.…

— Michaela Coel