Tag: Yance Ford
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My brother’s death picked up my life and put it down somewhere else. I had an image of myself in my mind as a working artist, and when he died, all of that changed.
Yance Ford
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Our blackness and how to survive being black in America was something that our parents instilled in us extraordinarily well.
Yance Ford
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There is nothing quite as exciting as watching a master at work.
Yance Ford
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When I use the word ‘buzz’ in successive sentences, it’s clearly time for me to stop writing.
Yance Ford
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I think fear has been racialised. When you get someone who says ‘I was afraid’ of a big black guy, that’s enough to say, ‘Okay, not guilty,’ or, ‘No indictment.’ It’s persisted over generations, and it needs to stop.
Yance Ford
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If my making history makes it easier for a trans kid at home somewhere to feel more at home in their skin, then I’m so excited about that.
Yance Ford
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The quality of festival Q&As is often a matter of chance. Sometimes the lights come up on movies I loved, and not a single meaningful question is asked. Sometimes it’s the opposite.
Yance Ford
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I’m incredibly proud to be the first trans director to be nominated for an Oscar.
Yance Ford
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It would have been tough for anyone to adapt ‘Push’ – an amazing but wrenching novel by Sapphire – for the screen, and I think director Lee Daniels made interesting choices, particularly with Precious’ fantasies. In my view, some of them work and some do not, but they are definitely provocative directorial choices.
Yance Ford
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White communities – and I exempt poor white communities from this – have power over their representation. White people have the ability to define themselves, to exert their agency in a way that they get to be believed. No one believes black people. No one. Until a white person vouches for them.
Yance Ford