What was nice for me was that when I got to secondary school – like high school – I met many other Ghanaian schoolgirls whose parents were also born in Ghana and were raising them here. We automatically had a huge kinship that was amazing. Michaela Coel Read Quote
In drama school, they do these big shows and period dramas, and I felt that none of those shows were representing me as a person, and I knew I wouldn’t be cast in any of those when I left school. I decided to write my own one-woman show, and that was called ‘Chewing Gum Dreams.’ Michaela Coel Read Quote
If there’s anyone out there that looks a bit like me, or just feels a little bit out of place just trying to get into performing, you are beautiful; embrace it. You are intelligent; embrace it. You are powerful; embrace it. Michaela Coel Read Quote
The unpredictability of the weather, the increasing possibility of intelligence introducing a species more powerful than ours, the growing uncertainty that animals can or should be slaughtered for our pleasure, has led many of us to start asking more complex questions about what is and isn’t normal. Michaela Coel Read Quote
We can put fear of the future in front of us to block us, or behind us to drive us forward. I feel like telling all the people who look like me to start trying to write. You don’t know it’s possible because it’s not often in front of you. Michaela Coel Read Quote
Chewing Gum Dreams’ should make you look twice at the girl shouting on the bus and not just cuss her off from your life. Michaela Coel Read Quote
Don’t sit there and complain. Rub your hands together and figure out what to do. Michaela Coel Read Quote
I think you just have to do you, whatever that is, and not feel like you have to be a certain way for other people to like you. Michaela Coel Read Quote
There’s Psalms that tell you things that nobody tells you – that you’re fearfully and wonderfully made, that you’re beautiful, that you have worth, basically. Michaela Coel Read Quote
