I identify with my womanhood before anything else because that's what I deal with when I am alone.

Zazie Beetz

Categorized in : Because Anything Alone I Am

Agriculture is one of the biggest causes of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Cars? Planes? Trains? Nope. Cow farts.

greenhouse cow agriculture atmosphere

Bad bread is the one thing I refuse. I need good bread.

need bad good bread

I love babies. I also have this very deep desire to become a mother. I always thought that motherhood was my highest calling.

deep motherhood mother love

The truth is all kinds of people exist everywhere. So let's tell their stories, too.

tell truth-is truth people

I used to cry on planes. I don't anymore. It probably took almost a hundred agonizing flights to get there. Now, when I take off, a smile quivers on the corner of my lips.

now lips smile cry

I've begun feeling that my responsibility is to the Earth. Our generation's war is climate change, so I've really been modifying how I eat and what I eat.

feeling climate-change change war

I do wonder if it's my responsibility to spread a message of environmental awareness or political awareness or just, like, don't be racist or whatever, but I don't want to be the person who's like, 'Everyone be vegan forever!'

environmental political responsibility

One day, I'd like to tackle a biopic. I grew up very influenced by Josephine Baker, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone.

day like holiday one-day

I actually didn't think I was going to do TV because I don't really watch TV. I'm a little bit pretentious, and I do these little indie movies, so I envisioned that more as the path for myself.

movies myself think path

I was an only child until I was 15, so I was able to reap the benefit of that.

only child reap only-child

I always thought my alternative life, if I wasn't acting, would be to become a midwife. I love women. I want to help them exist.

thought women love life

What I crave, and what I want to see on television, is when you see a minority character, not to have it being about them being black or Asian or Latino. If you watch 'Friends,' for example, it's not about a group of people being white. It's about a group of people being friends, you know? You should just let the characters exist.

you black character people

Growing up I definitely, definitely had a bunch of things of, 'Um, am I black enough?' - and I guess specifically, 'Am I German enough?' Why are we measuring blackness?

things growing-up black enough

Walking in the street, particularly in a city like New York, every single day, I am reminded of how objectified women can be. Being catcalled every day, multiple times a day, all the time... it just constantly happens.

i-am day women time

Some people feel like women should dress in a way that doesn't promote attention-seeking. But this is just my body. My body in itself isn't only sexual.

dress feel women people

It is so frustrating to feel in danger. People have followed me around at 2 in the morning and have literally said, 'Don't make me follow you. You're not responding to me.' It's incredibly degrading.

me you morning people

I like representing different kinds of black people - showing they exist.

like black different people

For me, a big thing growing up was naturalness - both in being and appearance. My mom never let me relax my natural hair. For so long, I thought I was ugly, and I still sometimes struggle with that. But now I've come to feel like this is me.

me relax struggle hair

I think what happens with a lot of writing and art is that specificity ends up being relatable while universality becomes vague.

think happens writing art

I've had acting teachers say, 'If you want to do anything else but act, that means you're not an actor,' which I think is stupid!

teachers think you stupid