You can talk all day long, but if you don't do something, it's a waste.

- Lena Waithe

Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story.

- Lena Waithe

My brand is good storytelling. I really want [my company] Hillman Grad Productions to be associated with great stories, interesting characters; thing…

- Lena Waithe

I'm not in the business of making us look clean, but I don't want us to look like monsters either. I think there is a little bit of hero and villain …

- Lena Waithe

I really want the sense of black people being interconnected: If you black and you from Chicago, there's a connective tissue we all have. Even if you…

- Lena Waithe

I always want to challenge myself as a writer. I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

- Lena Waithe

Most writers stick to what they know. The black experience is our experience, so it's not that challenging for us. That's why sometimes you'll see wr…

- Lena Waithe

I think the stakes are always high when you're an artist of color - to get things right, to get things perfect and make everybody happy. But I'm not …

- Lena Waithe

Today, you'll have a following for a film before it even hits theaters. We can reach out and touch our audience in ways that they couldn't. So it's a…

- Lena Waithe