You can’t get a complete history of anything in two hours – particularly the slave trade. - Sheila Atim

Making a film with a 99% Black female cast is great, but if we are not allowed to explore what our hairstyles will look like or if we're not allowed to imbue the film and our characters in the story with details that are specific to our experience, then it doesn't mean anything.

I think there can be this perception that, people who have some kind of practice, whether it's meditation or spiritual practice or whatever, have got it all figured out, and there's a kind of righteousness about it.

You know, always being positive, always wanting to try things, even if at first glance, it isn’t quite clear what the outcome is going to be.