When you’ve got African parents, you go to uni, do finance, and go into accounting. But I’m not good with systems. I dropped out in my final year of college to become a Christian poet. Then went back to do my A-levels and went to uni in Birmingham to do political science and theology. I lasted 12 weeks. Michaela Coel Read Quote
At college, I became friends with this girl who was a ‘cool Christian.’ They did street dance, then they prayed. It became my whole world. I had Christian friends. I went to Christian parties. Michaela Coel Read Quote
I don’t actually believe in the genre of comedy. Sometimes when I watch comedies, I can’t see the soul of the show. I want to be able to laugh and cry. That is where the magic is. I’m trying to get to that place. Michaela Coel Read Quote
My sets are not peaceful. It’s a beautiful catastrophe. I am running around like a headless chicken. I don’t sleep because I am writing. It’s manic. Michaela Coel Read Quote
I didn’t know I was going to write for TV until I was suddenly writing for TV, so that kind of stuff can bewilder you. Michaela Coel Read Quote
When I think of the things that I want to write, I can never say them out loud because I know how crazy they sound. I know what things sound like when you haven’t actually worked on the script, so I don’t go around saying some of these ideas because they just sound awful. Michaela Coel Read Quote
To see people laughing or crying or listening, then being inspired to do their own thing? I can’t think of anything better than that. Michaela Coel Read Quote
In comedy, I often see so many weird race jokes, and it’s like, there is no racial diversity in your show to even make those race jokes. The problem is that there is no one in the back to say, ‘Hey, that race joke is not really appropriate.’ Michaela Coel Read Quote
The first time I got into astrology was being in New York. I was like, ‘Oh, this is a real thing here!’ Now, I’ll Google what your sign is and what my sign is to see the predictions of friendship, and I find that really cool. But that’s the most I know. Michaela Coel Read Quote
We need to encourage black women to know that they are authors of their own destiny, that they have important stories to tell, and that they are capable, so magically capable, of writing them and creating important pieces of work that will live forever in history. Michaela Coel Read Quote
