The cool thing about dope black style becoming in style is that the industry has no choice but to try and reduplicate that.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the impact of black culture on mainstream fashion and entertainment.
Lena Waithe emphasizes the significance of black style gaining recognition in the industry, suggesting that once it is embraced, businesses must adapt and incorporate it into their offerings. This not only validates the creativity and influence of black culture but also pushes the industry to evolve and reflect a broader spectrum of style and identity.
In practice
During a fashion panel discussion about diversity in design, this quote could emphasize the importance of recognizing black creativity.
As a black woman in the industry, you really do have to hold your head higher, stick your chest out, be kind and polite and generous even when you don't want to be sometimes. I learned that and, also, just to never take no for an answer.
Being a black lesbian myself, I roll my eyes a little bit when I see black lesbian characters on shows where it's purely there for decoration. You can just hear it in the writers room... 'What if we make her a lesbian?'
It's weird because I see black gay characters on television all the time, but do I relate to them? Not always, because they're set pieces.
For me, it's about making art that's not good but phenomenal. James Baldwin didn't want to just stay above the fray. Prince didn't think, 'I wonder what the industry is gonna think about 'Purple Rain.'' It's just, is this honest? Is this real? Does this move me? The rest is icing.
Being born gay, black, and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to be a gay black female is.
I don't want to be white. I don't want to be straight. I don't want to blend in.
Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.
People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to compositions as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times.
There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!
To be a performance artist, you have to hate theatre. Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.
Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.
Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker.
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