Issa Rae

I mean, like, I need to feel like I'm in control of my own destiny.

And ownership allows that.

I hate, especially now, especially how volatile the industry is.

it doesn't kind of know what it wants to be and who it's serving.

I'm very certain of that.

And to be able to own that narrative and own what I make and own that lane is really important to me.

That little girl growing up.

Uh...

The sixth grade girl is very much in there.

In the sixth grade, I don't know about you, did you ever have an awkward phase in your life?

Yeah, I had an awkward phase.

Well, girls, that 11-year-old is in me.

And I think it's just... There's just an awareness.

And, you know, that like any part, any...

Insecurity that remains any discomfort that I associate with the little girl me.

But then the imaginative side where you're just like that person thought anything was possible.

That person was like, just wait till I grow up.

And I still feel like just wait till I grow up, even though, you know, I'm grown.

But yeah, in some ways I miss not having that fear.

I miss not having any expectations, but my own.