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“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 skin to not be a factor in my life at all.” quote by Michaela Coel — Download Open image

“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 skin to not be a factor in my life at all.”

Michaela Coel

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Looking back, the way I see it, there was something slightly deluded about my belief - what that meant to me - but with that delusion came of lot of happiness. Life was really black and white: if you do these things now, God will you invite you to his house where you will love forever and everything will be…

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

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

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I over-write!

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

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

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