Michaela Coel : (7)

" Inequality starts in the womb. " - Michaela Coel

" Comedy in the past hasn’t spoken to women because it wasn’t written by women, and male writers don’t make women three-dimensional characters. Too often, women just facilitate the man’s comedy: they’re not crazy; they’re not funny. But women are as vulgar as they are elegant, as stinky as they are smelling of eau de parfum. " - Michaela Coel

" Now I’m steeped in this world, I keep thinking going to the theatre every week is normal, but there’s a whole world of people who don’t go at all. I wrote ‘Chewing Gum Dreams’ for them – I’d love them to come. " - Michaela Coel

" ‘Chewing Gum’ is a sitcom set on an estate in east London. Its central character is a girl from a Pentecostal background who decides to embark on a more worldly lifestyle – it’s about adolescence 10 years too late. In my dreams, everybody is watching it, finding out about my world and realising it’s not what they imagined. That it’s not terrifying. " - Michaela Coel

" 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

" I believe there are some great things that I’ve taken from the Bible in terms of loving the world and trying to be kind. There are a lot of good things to take from the Bible, and I like to think I try to apply them to my life. " - Michaela Coel

" Don’t sit there and complain. Rub your hands together and figure out what to do. " - Michaela Coel