It’s a very complicated relationship that I have with America. I love it so much. And I also see the places where it’s flawed. Jodie Turner-Smith Read Quote
While I might not have a specific experience that is fully American, there is still a knowledge, something that I logically understand as a black woman and a black woman who is existing in America and a black woman who is in the diaspora that are just known quantities that I think anyone can relate to who is black. Jodie Turner-Smith Read Quote
What I love about my parents and Jamaican families is that exuberance we have, which I think is where I get my joy from, my energy and my attitude. Jodie Turner-Smith Read Quote
I think there’s always been a little performer in me. But having a family that are Jamaican immigrants, having this idea that, ‘Oh, that’s what you’re going to do for a living?’ seems kind of out of reach and not a reality. It’s like, ‘get a real job.’ Jodie Turner-Smith Read Quote
I watched the Sandra Bland documentary and her tape itself over and over and over and over again, and just the reality of that, the fear in that. Jodie Turner-Smith Read Quote
There was this wave of people who were upset that I was possibly married to a white man. Jodie Turner-Smith Read Quote
The fact that I’m being cast in a show to play a female lead and I’m the dark-skinned Black woman with short hair, it’s so incredible. Jodie Turner-Smith Read Quote
What’s unique about America is that the country itself was built upon oppression, it’s in the very foundation. Jodie Turner-Smith Read Quote
