Daveed Diggs Quotes

Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.

I want to speak for people that may not feel like they're being spoken for at the moment. And I want to make a connection between the world around us and the charts.

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

Perhaps the most important people that I should photograph are the people who don't have a voice.

I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

As scientists we are not really trained how to shout and make a lot of noise, buit when we try it, we're not so bad at it after all.

History is written by the winners. My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout.

I know from personal experience what it's like to be discriminated against. I remember people telling me, 'Ladies don't become lawyers,' and now I look at America and know what can be done.

Right now, black female artists are the most interesting people to think about. People are ready to hear whatever we're gonna say, and I'm not scared to say anything.

I'm trying to break a lot of prejudices with my every film.

'2 Dope Queens,' it was just a way for us to showcase female comedians, showcase comedians of color, showcase LGBT comedians, and shake up the landscape and be like, 'Hey, there is more than just what is out there.'

I know I have a voice, and I want to use that voice as much as I can to bring things forward.

What writing a poem really does - and what figuring how to perform effectively really does - is forces people to listen to you. It frames your thoughts in such a way that grabs people's attentions and forces them to hear the things that you're actually saying.

Young girls in Haryana should speak their mind and not be afraid to challenge the system.

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

Glass ceilings have been broken, but more have to be broken.

I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom of things. Of course some of them will be tromped out, and some will always be at the bottom, keeping company with other bottom-folks.

A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."

A liberation struggle is like a struggle against dirt. No matter what type of bath you takein three weeks you'll smell like you've never seen a bathtub. What we don't understand about a liberation struggle is you never win it, any more than you "win" clean dishes. As soon as you eat on them, the dishes are dirty again.

We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.

It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom.

It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come true