Art that reflects loss

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saw

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my painting on the cover of time

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magazine that she felt like she saw an

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image

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that actually reflected her loss

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identifying stereotypes in black culture

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it's kind of easy for me to see we all

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see it and because we don't like it

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it look it sticks out it's not right

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i started my film career with

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you know the mindset that we would not

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further along these stereotypes and not

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depict

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these images in our film so and do the

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right thing you don't see a kid

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with a basketball bouncing it down the

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middle of the road

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and so in many films that you see um

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of mine there is a sense of pride in

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culture with hair love the big

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stereotype we try to debunk was the fact

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that black fathers aren't involved in

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their kids lives

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that's definitely something that's

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persistent in the film industry

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you know black men not being depicted as

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good dads or being present that was a

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big thing that we try to

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circumvent the ability to see yourself

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represented