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As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the project but what its predecessors did, it's not truly inclusive.
Ava DuVernay
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Ava DuVernay
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: August 24
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Long Beach
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Ava Marie DuVernay
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Most of us think prison is a place where bad people go - which is what I thought for a long time - until you really start to look inside the system and you see, this is not right.
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If you have the ability to do something, you should do it.
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We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery.
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I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton.
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I don't understand the iPhone. I just don't get it. Don't ya'll have to write serious emails throughout the day? How can you possibly manage detailed missives on a phone with no keys?
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I know that there are a lot of great women that have gone before me, so it's important to acknowledge them.
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