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I LOVE my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case. . . HEART might stop. MIND can forget. I Love them with my Soul. SOUL never stops or forgets.

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Justin Simien

White people don't have that problem, they get to go through life never having to fit into a box, and it's really more so true for white men because even just being a woman, you sort of have to walk around other people's assumptions of you and it's so exhausting and there's a sense, especially among young people of wanting to just live your life, not having to wear the weight of that pressure - pressure that people of color feel, that gay people of color feel, that women of color feel.

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As a person of color, I was just really tired of the fact that I wasn't seeing my story in the culture.

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This film isn't about "white racism", or racism at all. DEAR WHITE PEOPLE is about identity. It's about the difference between how the mass culture responds to a person because of their race and who they understand themselves to truly be. And this societal conflict appears to be one that many share.

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Sometimes identity can be your salvation. It can be liberating to find your place in the world, but at some point, identity can hold you back.

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As a director, I try not to implement a way for working, for every single actor, across the board. I try to work with each one, on an individual basis.

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One of the facets of growing up the way I did, I never had the experience of being solely in the black community. Even my family, my mother is what they call Creole, so she's part French, part black, and grew up in Louisiana. It's a very specific kind of blackness that is different than what is traditionally thought of as the black community and black culture. So, I never felt a part of whatever that was.

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