How many shows on TV do you see young black people, both women and men, really embody a full-fledged human being, flaws and all?
Interpretation
The quote highlights the lack of authentic representation of young black individuals in media.
Yvonne Orji emphasizes the importance of seeing young black people portrayed in a multifaceted way on television, acknowledging both their strengths and flaws. This call for representation speaks to the broader issue of diversity in media, where often only narrow or stereotypical portrayals exist, thus limiting the understanding of their full humanity.
In practice
In a discussion about diversity in media during a panel.
There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.
The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well. The problems start on the third day, and continues for the rest of your life.
I love and admire everyone who is different. I love that. The 'jet set' is banal. 'Good taste' is banal. Eccentricity is chic. Good taste paralyzes. But punk or street fashion or a tattoo-covered body, that is interesting to me, and that I love. I didn't go to fashion school. I learned from watching couture shows on TV and reading magazines. That made me dream.
I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion and find that all the blues are on the same level.
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
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