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It strikes me as odd that we've made journeys with our social conditioning in certain areas, but not in others. The world is always changing; discoveries in technology and science relentlessly expose our dearest values as fictions.

I don't really go with the crowd. I'm the kind of person that if I heard some girls were bullying my friend in another school, I would go to that school by myself and try to have a fight with a hundred girls.

Michaela Coel

I'm way too honest. It can backfire.

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You have to be true to your instinctive way of writing. You have to find your identity.

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When I think of the things that I want to write, I can never say them out loud because I know how crazy they sound. I know what things sound like when you haven't actually worked on the script, so I don't go around saying some of these ideas because they just sound awful.

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I've been bullied about my appearance since forever.

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Inequality starts in the womb.

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What was nice for me was that when I got to secondary school - like high school - I met many other Ghanaian schoolgirls whose parents were also born in Ghana and were raising them here. We automatically had a huge kinship that was amazing.

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If there's anyone out there that looks a bit like me, or just feels a little bit out of place just trying to get into performing, you are beautiful; embrace it. You are intelligent; embrace it. You are powerful; embrace it.

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I love listening to audiobooks - I always lose my glasses, but if I have an audiobook, I don't need them.

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There always seems to be an element of faith in my writing.

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In comedy, I often see so many weird race jokes, and it's like, there is no racial diversity in your show to even make those race jokes. The problem is that there is no one in the back to say, 'Hey, that race joke is not really appropriate.'

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Twitter is just full of silly little people enjoying being sarcastic and rude and mocking.

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'Chewing Gum' ages me 15 years every time I do it - it's insane.

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'Chewing Gum' is kind of like the world I wish I grew up in. There wasn't really a sense of community growing up.

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One thing I am quite passionate about is the absence of dark-skinned women in the media, so I have a passion to show dark-skinned women as beautiful, as vulnerable, as people who can be sexually desired and loving people, because it is never really seen on TV.

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I wrote a play at drama school, which was a dark comedy - people laughed and cried. And then my script of one of the shows was picked up by a comedy sketch company... so then I had to write comedy.

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I was very unhappy at one point and dealt with my unhappiness by hitting people.

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I love Issa Rae. I adore her.

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What dominates my life isn't the fact that I started off doing theatre. It's probably to do with Christianity, my race, the class I was born into. These are the things that make my work. They make who I am as well.

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My sets are not peaceful. It's a beautiful catastrophe. I am running around like a headless chicken. I don't sleep because I am writing. It's manic.

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I'm very rational, so sometimes I need the facts, and if I don't have the facts, then I get huffy, and I move on.

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I have to go to sleep with music.

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I'm massively open-minded to pretty much anything.

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In Britain, we need to start presenting the option of being a writer in front of black women. We need to present the idea of being a writer into poorer communities because the majority of black people in this country are working class. We need to let working-class people know that their voices are important.

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'Chewing Gum' is a sitcom set on an estate in east London. Its central character is a girl from a Pentecostal background who decides to embark on a more worldly lifestyle - it's about adolescence 10 years too late. In my dreams, everybody is watching it, finding out about my world and realising it's not what they imagined. That it's not terrifying.

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When I was 18, I suddenly became very, very religious. I became an evangelical Christian; I was celibate for five years.

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Women are tired of 'presenting' themselves; we just want to be who we are.

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The environment on the 'Chewing Gum' set is where everyone can work to the best of their abilities and everyone is happy. So, if I'm not happy with something, I've learnt that you don't start flailing about; you go in quietly, and there's a conversation.

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It was only when I went to sixth-form college that I encountered boys.

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I don't know what it would have been like to grow up with a man in the house.

Michaela Coel

It strikes me as odd that we've made journeys with our social conditioning in certain areas, but not in others. The world is always changing; discoveries in technology and science relentlessly expose our dearest values as fictions.

Michaela Coel

I am really weird.

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I took what I was given in Christianity and put it into my secular, hedonistic life.

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To suggest things may be going on in our brains that we aren't fully conscious of, that we unknowingly make classist, sexist and racist presumptions... Well, there just aren't many comfortable ways to take that. And in the face of discomfort comes the mask of defence.

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I don't think we should be presentable or present ourselves for the sake of others.

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I didn't know I was going to write for TV until I was suddenly writing for TV, so that kind of stuff can bewilder you.

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