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.
I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.
I think you just have to be yourself instead of catering your sound to a specific audience, make the music you want to make, and the audience will find you.
Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the senses.
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.
All they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.
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