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Ava DuVernay Quotes

Total quotes: 40
“Linda Fairstein: Who do you think you are?

Sharon Salaam: I'm his mother. ”
— Sharon Salaam, When They See Us, Season 1: Part One
Tagged: mother, Protective
“Don't ever think you're alone. I'm walking through this with you. You cry, I cry. You mad, I'm mad. You scared, I'm scared. You free, I'm free. You and me, always.”
— Linda McCray, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Three
Tagged: Alone, Love, cry, Mad, Scared, Always
“Kevin Richardson: Why are they doing us like this?

Raymond Santana: What other way they ever do us?”
— Young Raymond Santana, When They See Us, Season 1: Part One
Tagged: unjust, unfair, Police, Corrupt
“You watch them grow. You start to think you did a good job. And then one night you look away.”
— Sharon Salaam, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Two
Tagged: Night, look away, Parenting
“If we don't believe man, we already lost.”
— Young Antron McCray, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Two
Tagged: Hope, Belief, lost
“When the police want what they want, they will do anything.”
— Bobby McCray, When They See Us, Season 1: Part One
Tagged: Police, unjust, anything, Corrupt
“Yusef Salaam: People hate us out there.

Sharon Salaam: They hate your brilliance. They hate your beauty. They hate us. But we not gonna hate ourselves.”
— Sharon Salaam, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Three
Tagged: Hate, beauty, brilliance, Love
“You watch them grow. You know? And you start to think you did a good job. You know?”
— Sharon Salaam, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Two
Tagged: Grow, Good Job, upset, Confused
“The police decided to solve this case no matter what it meant to the rights of a scared 14-year-old child.”
— Mickey Joseph, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Two
Tagged: Police, case, rights, unjust
“They said if I was there and if I went along with it, that I could go home. And that's all I wanted. That's all I wanted, was to go home. That's all I still want.”
— Korey Wise, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Two
Tagged: Home, wanted, Sad, Missing Home
“I know you seen things, maybe had to do things, defend yourself, survive, whatever might have happened. But in the end, you have the same heart.”
— Angie Richardson, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Three
Tagged: defense, Survival, heart, In The End
“I'm trying to tell you what you need to do to get your ass up out of here.”
— Bobby McCray, When They See Us, Season 1: Part One
Tagged: help, Life, Freedom
“You left a child unaccompanied by a guardian or a lawyer with these men in this room, for hours! Shame on you.”
— Sharon Salaam, When They See Us, Season 1: Part One
Tagged: horrible, Lawyer, Guardian, Room, Shame
“That devil wants to kill my son. You going to take an ad out about killing my son.”
— Sharon Salaam, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Two
Tagged: upset, horrible, devil, Donald Trump, Awful, Ad
“He's got something to look forward to. You have to find one too. That the trick of a happy life.”
— Angie Richardson, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Three
Tagged: forward, Happy, Life
“All the guilt. It's lazy energy. It doesn't change the past and it doesn't shape the future. ”
— Grace Cuffee, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Three
Tagged: Guilt, Lazy, Energy, Past, Future
“When they say 'boys' they not talking about us. They talking about other boys from other places. When did we ever get to be boys?”
— Raymond Santana, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Three
Tagged: boys, Childhood, Places, lost
“I lied on you, man.”
— Kevin Richardson, When They See Us, Season 1: Part One
Tagged: lied, dishonest
“I want to sleep in my own bed so bad.”
— Young Raymond Santana, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Two
Tagged: Sleep, Bed, Sad, Missing
“I'm trying to treat it right, ya know?”
— Young Raymond Santana, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Three
Tagged: Treatment, hopes, Aims
“God knows he could use a boost right about now.”
— Delores Wise, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Three
Tagged: Boost , upset, help
“Happiness is something to look forward to.”
— Angie Richardson, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Three
Tagged: Happiness, Forward to, Life
“They ain't gonna get me again.”
— Raymond Santana, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Three
Tagged: Jail, Police, Get Me, Prison
“What those people stole from you, you can't buy back.”
— Raymond Santana Sr., When They See Us, Season 1: Part Three
Tagged: stole, Buy, lost
“I like when you call me kid.”
— Korey Wise, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Four
Tagged: kid, young, Youth
“I was trying to protect him. Help him. Trying to save him.”
— Bobby McCray, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Two
Tagged: Protect, save, help
“I guess I just like making dirty things shine, that's all.”
— Antron McCray, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Three
Tagged: dirty, Shine, all, Flirting
“What I am supposed to do? Just let them do whatever they to do?”
— Korey Wise, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Four
Tagged: help, Questions, whatever
“Put me in solitary.”
— Korey Wise, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Four
Tagged: Jail, solitary
“You don't know nothing about being me.”
— Delores Wise, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Four
Tagged: me, Individuality, Knowledge
“Please come back as much as you can.”
— Korey Wise, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Four
Tagged: visit, Love, visit, Come Back
“Nobody else should be paying for mine.”
— Matias Reyes, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Four
Tagged: paying, Mine, Justice
“They talked themselves into they mess.”
— Sharon Salaam, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Two
Tagged: Talked , Confession, Mess, trouble
“The eyes see, but it cannot see itself.”
— Linda Fairstein, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Two
Tagged: Eyes, country
“I love you enough to make up for everybody.”
— Linda McCray, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Three
Tagged: Love, Enough, Unconditional
“Boy, I ain't got nothing to give you.”
— Delores Wise, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Four
Tagged: Boy, Money, Nothing
“I'm done with everything here. Except for you.”
— Marci Wise, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Four
Tagged: Love, Done, Everything
“Sometimes all you can do is try your best.”
— Korey Wise, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Four
Tagged: Try, best, Life, Goals
“Somebody loves you, baby. You getting out!”
— Delores Wise, When They See Us, Season 1: Part Four
Tagged: Free, Confess, Love, Justice
“I find that fear and not wanting to take risks, and staying too comfortable makes people wait. They’ll say, ‘I’ll wait until this happens, I’ll wait until I go to film school, I’ll wait until I have all the money, I’ll wait until they ask me.’ Don’t wait for permission. Seek without permission. There’s nothing to wait for. There’s no one coming. There’s nothing coming to do this for you. You have to do it yourself.”
— Ava DuVernay, Balls of Steel
Tagged: Fear, Risk, Drive, Courage
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