If You're In Love And

I Remember After I Dated This White Man, Nobody Said Anything But There Was A Couple Of Men In My Family That Joked After That. 'oh Yeah, We Had A Party When Y'all Broke Up. Hee Hee Hee.' And, You Know, They Laughed, And It Was Like Light And A Joke. But, You Know, That's Real. That Was Real And They Let Me Know. And, It's Almost Acceptable Within Our Culture To Be Prejudiced Toward Whites Because Of Our History. This Country Is Loaded With Racism .

The Inspiration For This Movie [something New] Was This Newsweek Article That Came Out A Couple Of Years Ago That Talks About 42.4 Percent Of Black Women In America Aren't Married. Black Women Are Shooting Up The Corporate Ladder Way Faster Than Our Black Male Counterparts. And (black Men) Are Either Dating Outside Their Race, In Jail Or Dying. And So If You Want To Have A Family, You Want To Be Married, You Have To Look At Other Options.

Like The Guy I Was Dating. White, Liberal, Educated. I Went To Meet His Family And I Think That They Probably Didn't Know They Had A Problem With It Until He Walked In With Me. And They Definitely Had Issues. Mom Had Issues With It. Could Not, Didn't Want To See Her Son. And I Don't Think She Had Anything Against Me. But It Was About Her Son Bringing Me Home. And I Felt That For The First Time. I Was Like, 'wow, That's Deep.' It's Really Simple: I Don't Fit Their Picture.

I Think I'm A Character Actress In A Leading Lady's Body, But The Industry Doesn't Really See Me That Way.

The Alien Is Gross, Scary. There Is Something In A Human Being That Looks At Them And Sees It As A Cockroach. You Can Never Feel Nurturing Towards The Cockroach.