All Quotes

"you might say that culture has become more inclusive, that inequalities and prejudice seem to be slowly retreating, and that things which were once considered normal and acceptable are now deemed to be inappropriate"

"our collective relationship to the truth has become far more chaotic.”"

"I think as a queer person, kind of everything I do in the public sphere is drag in some capacity"

"We have a unique voice because we grow up with the ability to empathize. We constantly have to do the work of placing ourselves in other people’s shoes"

"I noticed that whenever I was trying to talk about social justice and how Black women are framed in the media, quite ironically, I would be framed in a certain way that would demonize me and take away the value of my point"

"Whenever Black women have a point, they’re characterized as Angry Black Women, and therefore the thing they’re talking about is no longer of importance because they have to deal with them being overly emotional or something."

"I recognize that people who respond negatively to what I have to say aren’t at a place yet where they are able to learn"

"I feel like when I was younger—even though I may not have been conscious [of it]—I fought my hair and I fought who I was…to try to conform, or shy away from my Blackness"

"Now that I’m growing older, I find that my source of power comes from my identity and ethnicity"

"I thought a lot about the concept of cultural dysphoria, and how that can shape how people relate to the world,"

"This year's tournament is not going to be easy, everything that will be participarting will be coming for the ultimate."

"We as host nation have a big task to win the sompetition as well but is not going to come easy."

"I have believed and very confident we can make mother Ghana proud when the competition begins."

"Naturally, we want to win the tournament because it would feel very good [to do do] at home, but we can only focus on it one game at a time."

"We have come close many times so there we are not far off at all."

"It’s sometimes sad and disheartening how the people of Ghana especially the media have just neglected us and say nothing about our teams."

"Whenever I’m listening to Radio and watching TV, I hear how they(the media) promote and fight for the Black Stars and other Men’s national teams at the expense of we the Female teams which shouldn’t be the case."

"The Black Queens were the first team to represent the country at the world cup level but the kind of treatment and promotion we get from Ghanaians especially the media is on the low side."

"We want to qualify for the semi-finals without any doubt and that will mean winning. Besides, we want to keep our unbeated record so far."

"Why can't female players and coaches be celebrated as well?"

"We are all serving the same Ghana as the male players and coaches."

"When I have the ball, she knows what I'll do next."

"Once you start to become more aware of different things and look at the bigger picture, it’s not so black and white"

"Another thing I got from living in Uganda is that there’s such a strong sense of community; everyone who lived in that village was considered my family."

"I’ve never really had somewhere that feels like home."

"I was very exposed to a different world of art and culture and different philosophies, and I feel grateful for that because it helped shape my idea of the world"

"Growing up in Uganda, I saw a lot of white people, but I never felt like a minority—I thought this is what it’s like everywhere"

"When we moved to Vancouver, my mother had to relearn a lot of things—the only things that she really got to bring with her were her religion and her culture"

"My family has always been quite theatrical just in our being"

"That was my introduction to character study and acting as a means of understanding people and relationships"

"When I moved to New York, it was the first time I felt that I could live for myself and try different things"

"But I also am a firm believer that it’s about the people you have around you"

"In Uganda, I would never have thought of doing this job. Not because it doesn’t happen there but because it’s as if, in my mind and in my family’s mind, we already had a completely different path mapped out for our lives. Instead, Canada has opened up new opportunities for me that I could not have imagined"

"I feel like when you’re putting too much pressure on something it tends to combust, so you have to find pockets of different creative release"

"Even though acting is a creative outlet, it’s not something that you can do by yourself unless you’re reading scripts or analyzing movies"

"I want to experiment and push myself to see how far I can go. I’m down for anything that’s as far from me as possible. So whatever that means to you, to whoever’s reading this, I just want to do that. I want to do some crazy shit"

"In Uganda, the culture that you’re born into is kind of what you follow throughout the rest of your life, but when I came here, it felt more like I had the option to be my own person and choose where I wanted my life to go."

"Nobody has approached me. I have also talked to Minister Seretse, and like me he is surprised where all this is coming from."

"I heard about the issue. I don’t know anything and I’m not going anywhere. I heard people saying they have learnt that the party was in negotiations with me; factually I have never been approached by the party. I did not even bother to engage the party on the matter because what I understood was that the party was in negotiations with me, but because I knew there were no negotiations going on, why bother the party."

"Then that is when we can know what we are talking about. I am not resigning, I will remain in my constituency and not a single BDP leader has ever discussed that with me."

"I think they should have approached us with the allegations before printing it but they did not and chose to write the falsehoods."

"Elephants in the northern part of the country are targeted by cross border poachers who are armed with weapons of war and who do not hesitate to engage our security forces to achieve their criminal objectives."

"Instead they make use of members of our communities to do the dirty work on their behalf for amounts of money that are a mere fraction of the billions of Pula that they ultimately reap from the illegal trade."

"[praying] Please, Lord, make me the biggest star the world has ever known... so that I may get far, far away from this place. Amen."

"[the Projectionist is trying to escape from Pearl's farm as she is wielding a pitchfork] You're not leaving me here! I'M NOT STAYIN' ON THIS FARM! [She stabs him dead center in the chest and then rips it out] NOTHING'S GONNA KEEP ME HERE! NOT YOU! NOT HOWARD! NOT MAMA! NOBODY!"

"[yelling in distress after being rejected] No, I'm a star! Please, I'm a star! Please, somebody help me! Please help me! Help me!"

"Mia Goth - Pearl"

"David Corenswet - the projectionist"

"Tandi Wright - Ruth, Pearl's mother"

"Matthew Sunderland - Pearl's father"