It's not enough even to have one black Barbie... because black women are not a monolith.

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• Ava DuVernay:

  I want more girls to be able to see themselves behind the camera creating images we all enjoy, and

• Ava DuVernay:

  When we say there's a dearth of women directors, it's not that there's a lack of women who direct:

• Ava DuVernay:

  I think that black people making art, women making art, and certainly black women making art is a d

• Ava DuVernay:

  There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women.

• Ava DuVernay:

  You see women struggling to keep it all together while a loved one is in jail. But we don't hear ab

• Ava DuVernay:

  All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and ve

• Ava DuVernay:

  My next project is 'Venus Vs,' which is a documentary that follows tennis star Venus Williams and h

• Ava DuVernay:

  In Hollywood, there is one dominant voice. It is a white, male, straight gaze. When I talk about po

• Ava DuVernay:

  I think for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films.

• Ava DuVernay:

  There's a belonging problem in Hollywood. Who dictates who belongs? The very body who dictates that