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I am really weird.
I'm a Louis Theroux addict.
Inequality starts in the womb.
I love Jeremy Corbyn, definitely.
'Chewing Gum' is the London that I know.
So many of my memories revolve around TV.
Drama school taught me not to be precious.
I'm massively open-minded to pretty much anything.
I've been bullied about my appearance since forever.
There always seems to be an element of faith in my writing.
'Chewing Gum' ages me 15 years every time I do it - it's insane.
It was only when I went to sixth-form college that I encountered boys.
Women are tired of 'presenting' themselves; we just want to be who we are.
I don't know what it would have been like to grow up with a man in the house.
Don't sit there and complain. Rub your hands together and figure out what to do.
I was very unhappy at one point and dealt with my unhappiness by hitting people.
I don't think we should be presentable or present ourselves for the sake of others.
I took what I was given in Christianity and put it into my secular, hedonistic life.
Being fetishized because of my skin? I've definitely encountered that wall of people.
I do like making people feel uncomfortable - it's separating the wheat from the chaff.
You have to be true to your instinctive way of writing. You have to find your identity.
Twitter is just full of silly little people enjoying being sarcastic and rude and mocking.
My generation of black British people often feels part American because of what we learned from TV.
I love listening to audiobooks - I always lose my glasses, but if I have an audiobook, I don't need them.
When I grew up, my race was not a thing. My identity was in my class. It was not about colour on my estate.
I'm very rational, so sometimes I need the facts, and if I don't have the facts, then I get huffy, and I move on.
I don't like working - I just like having done the end product. The process, I like to make it quick and painful.
'Chewing Gum' is kind of like the world I wish I grew up in. There wasn't really a sense of community growing up.
I don't write with this thing in the back of my head about carrying the weight of young black women on my shoulders.
When I was 18, I suddenly became very, very religious. I became an evangelical Christian; I was celibate for five years.
I wanted to write a show about an estate that wasn't sad or morbid, like a lot of shows portray working class life to be.
'Chewing Gum Dreams' should make you look twice at the girl shouting on the bus and not just cuss her off from your life.
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.
The idea of wanting to do something that's completely natural and then having to repress it is something that I find fascinating.
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.
I've always liked using humor, but what I had to with 'Chewing Gum' was take out a lot of darkness so it would be a bit more feel-good.
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.
Growing up on our estate, we were all different colours, but we were all really poor. I never really realised that black was a problem for some people.
I don't believe in comedy as a TV genre - I think there's drama that is funny. Because beyond the laughs, there has to be cost, and there has to be heart.
Black isn't something I became after a car crash that I've been dealing with ever since. I'd like the colour of my skin to not be a factor in my life at all.
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.
I definitely believe in spirituality. I like to pray, but I'm not praying to something that I can define; I'm just speaking because I know it does have an effect.
I feel that when you want to start attacking people or completely rejecting the people you see as not on the godly side, to me, that isn't God, and that isn't love.
I went to drama school, where you learn to clown around a bit. You're walking around in leotards every day for three years, and you're taught clowning and mask work.
I actually thank God for television... it's not technology, it's storytelling. Technology is saying, 'Do less, do less, do less.' And I don't think it's healthy, no.
I became a very passionate Christian when I was 17. I started writing and performing poetry at different venues across the U.K. I started performing from then, really.
Men are trained to like this version of womanhood, and when someone comes along smashing the table and messing up the party, it's a bit like, 'Get out; why are you disturbing the peace?'
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.
I wrote a play at drama school, which was a dark comedy - people laughed and cried. And then my script of one of the shows was picked up by a comedy sketch company... so then I had to write comedy.
I don't really go with the crowd. I'm the kind of person that if I heard some girls were bullying my friend in another school, I would go to that school by myself and try to have a fight with a hundred girls.