"If I wasn’t a queer black woman, I don’t know if I would have been standing on that stage. I hoped that they could see through me that when you tell your story, when you live your authentic life, only good things will come from it."
The Emmy-winner is hard at work on developing a new sitcom, writing her first drama, producing a provocative piece of original cinema, and appearing in a new Steven Spielberg movie. Master of it all.
With a powerful scene in the new season of Aziz Ansari's hit Netflix series, the actor and writer relives the toughest talk she ever had with her mother.