“For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf.” Local press reviews of those early plays tended to home in on Deadwyler, and her willingness to completely relinquish her petite body to action.
Can you tell me about coming up in the theatre scene in Atlanta? You are a pillar of the community there. Looking through your archive, I’ve been so desperate to see recordings of your pieces. I’m trying to cobble together the performances from stills, descriptions..] That’s the value of the oral history in the African and African American community.How fucking exciting is it to sit and have a Black elder tell you what was. That’s the critical Black imagination. In a world that [forces] you to be there so often, don’t be there.
How has motherhood figured in your work? How has the experience heightened your relationship to your instrument, which is your body? Whenever a role of yours is announced, I think to myself, Danielle is unpredictable. You are like water, as the actor Enoch King once described you, capable of fitting the grooves of any genre. How do you manage the parallel careers of directing your own work and then being a vessel for another artist’s agenda?
This whole life thing is getting to some ego death. Particularly Black artists, coming into the Hollywood dynamic. There is acting as acting and acting as being. I’ve read that you did the “Till” audition with your son.
I truly believe that Danielle was amazing in this movie. I'm ashamed I just couldn't hit the play button. Not because I'm white and do not care. The complete opposite. I'm just weak and could not bring myself to watch the horror inflicted on 14 year Emmett Hill. I apologise.
KeithBeauchamp The sad and dismissive comments on here display the determined, never-ending ignorance of white America.
what a winning mindset.
Daniela. Una cosa es lo que dicen y otra lo que hacen. Supuestamente estas en el Pais de la 'Libertad', no somos todos iguales. No parece!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Come to Africa.
LOL
Tell to Oprah, Robin Quivers…
The ever receding pocket of minority victimhood.
Mercy...
Most young men in prisons are black and come from a home without a father present. That tends to tar all black women whether actually justified or not. And yet the culture is pressing women to satisfy their needs whatever the consequences, apparently. You want me to ignore color?
Pathetic. Shame on for printing this garbage.
Oh for God sake. No wonder she can't get ahead
NewYorker belongs on a bonfire. Anti white dogshit.
Good lord, give it a rest. This is so exhausting.
It doesn't matter how hard any women work.
Two of the most annoying things about people who constantly pretend to be victims is the unabashed narcissism and ingratitude. Also, her arrogance and sense of entitlement is appalling.
Hear! Hear!
Affirmative Action disagrees
So why didn't you show a photo of her working and not at the movies lol da fuq?
Don’t believe it