By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.
I've made some movies that I really loved that nobody saw.
The movies I'm in not a lot of people see, but it's alright.
A lot of people don't know what I do. In the industry they take credit for work because to some degree it makes them feel worthy or greater. I am not a ghostwriter 'cause it is on the CD covers who wrote and did what but people don't care about anything they can't see. The work gets unnoticed and the credibility goes untouched.
Let's face it, 80 percent of the work I do my kids can't see.
I feel like on 'Free TC,' you know, I feel like I went hard, and not enough people recognized.
At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.
A writer is supposed to have anonymity.
I think efforts sometimes don't get rewarded.
Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.
I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.
I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
In reality, it is the waste collectors, the nurses, and the cleaners whose shoulders are supporting the apex of the pyramid. They are the true mechanism of social solidarity.
I've been so good in so many movies that nobody saw.
The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
Nobody ever asks me about my lyrics.
As a mother, I work hard every day and I expect that work to be recognized and appreciated. Because I work for and with human beings, sometimes they're grateful and sometimes they aren't.
Men are much more likely to make sure the boss knows they were in the office until midnight. But women tend to avoid seeking that kind of acknowledgement for their work. They just assume that the boss knows - but the boss usually doesn't. I experienced that firsthand.
You feel undervalued when you write the kind of fiction I write.
I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously.
I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing.
Eaten bread is forgotten.
Your motivation gets sucked away when you know that whatever you do your name won't be on the team sheet.
I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it.
