Joy Quote by Cord Jefferson

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

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

Bravery is a virtue people revere in dead soldiers and then turn to disparage in someone extending her hand to a weirdo.

— Cord Jefferson

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

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

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

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

I think that happiness has been elusive for me my entire life.

— Cord Jefferson

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

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

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

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