"I'm a black woman every day, and I'm……" — Shonda Rhimes
"I'm a black woman every day, and I'm not confused about that. I'm not worried about that. I don't need to have a discussion with you about how I feel as a black woman, because I don't feel disempowered as a black woman."
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Shonda Rhimes
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34 Quotes by Shonda Rhimes
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Everyone always says to me, 'Why aren't there more people of color on television?' I'm like, 'Why don't you ask…
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You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don't have…
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I remember saying, very almost jokingly, I'm going to take over the world through television, that's my plan. And I…
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The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.
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It can be scary to find out you've been wrong about something but we can't be afraid to change our…
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Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you…
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Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in…
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Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of…
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I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.
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Ive learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with…
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You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.
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Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I come from a middle-class family, my parents are academics.…
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