What 'Strong Island' does is bring a historical perspective and help people understand that what we're treating as a modern-day phenomenon is actually not modern. It's actually quite old.
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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.
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There are people who get to be three-dimensional humans in the United States, and there are people who do not.
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I had a list of 10 rules when we started 'Strong Island,' and one of them was, 'Yance will never appear on camera with sync sound.'
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I have a lot of surrogate parents, but there's no one like your mother.
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When I use the word 'buzz' in successive sentences, it's clearly time for me to stop writing.
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