Michaela Coel

At college, I became friends with this girl who was a 'cool Christian.' They did street dance, then they prayed. It became…

— Michaela Coel

It strikes me as odd that we've made journeys with our social conditioning in certain areas, but not in others. The world…

— Michaela Coel

Growing up on our estate, we were all different colours, but we were all really poor. I never really realised that black…

— Michaela Coel

I do like making people feel uncomfortable - it's separating the wheat from the chaff.

— Michaela Coel

In comedy, I often see so many weird race jokes, and it's like, there is no racial diversity in your show to…

— Michaela Coel

I actually thank God for television... it's not technology, it's storytelling. Technology is saying, 'Do less, do less, do less.' And I…

— Michaela Coel

To suggest things may be going on in our brains that we aren't fully conscious of, that we unknowingly make classist, sexist…

— Michaela Coel

I definitely believe in spirituality. I like to pray, but I'm not praying to something that I can define; I'm just speaking…

— Michaela Coel

I definitely believe in spirituality. I like to pray, but I'm not praying to something that I can define; I'm just speaking…

— Michaela Coel

Women are tired of 'presenting' themselves; we just want to be who we are.

— Michaela Coel

If there's anyone out there that looks a bit like me, or just feels a little bit out of place just trying…

— Michaela Coel

I am really weird.

— Michaela Coel

In Britain, we need to start presenting the option of being a writer in front of black women. We need to present…

— Michaela Coel

Twitter is just full of silly little people enjoying being sarcastic and rude and mocking.

— Michaela Coel

Comedy in the past hasn't spoken to women because it wasn't written by women, and male writers don't make women three-dimensional characters.…

— Michaela Coel

I don't actually believe in the genre of comedy. Sometimes when I watch comedies, I can't see the soul of the show.…

— Michaela Coel

The unpredictability of the weather, the increasing possibility of intelligence introducing a species more powerful than ours, the growing uncertainty that animals…

— Michaela Coel

When I was 18, I suddenly became very, very religious. I became an evangelical Christian; I was celibate for five years.

— Michaela Coel

It was only when I went to sixth-form college that I encountered boys.

— Michaela Coel

Black isn't something I became after a car crash that I've been dealing with ever since. I'd like the colour of my…

— Michaela Coel

The first time I got into astrology was being in New York. I was like, 'Oh, this is a real thing here!'…

— Michaela Coel

Drama school taught me not to be precious.

— Michaela Coel

In drama school, they do these big shows and period dramas, and I felt that none of those shows were representing me…

— Michaela Coel

There's Psalms that tell you things that nobody tells you - that you're fearfully and wonderfully made, that you're beautiful, that you…

— Michaela Coel

I'm way too honest. It can backfire.

— Michaela Coel