00:00Tyler!
00:01Hey, Danielle.
00:02Look at you.
00:03How you doing?
00:04Wonderful.
00:05Good, good, good.
00:06Glad to be seeing you.
00:07Love your shirt.
00:09A black woman creative.
00:10Always championing for black women over here.
00:11So, Tyler.
00:12Black women.
00:13This is theblackwomanbibleessence.com.
00:16And we're always talking about the treatment of black women, especially when they're written
00:21by someone else.
00:23How do you feel like you handle our image?
00:25Oh, listen to me.
00:26I'm very, very proud of the women that I write.
00:29Let me tell you why.
00:30Okay.
00:31Let me tell you why.
00:32I grew up in the household at the hip of my mother and my two sisters.
00:37And I watched them go through so much stuff with relationships, so many things that men
00:42did to them, so that I gained a tremendous sympathy, especially for black women.
00:45So, sometimes I'm criticized.
00:46Well, why does your character have to be this?
00:48Why does a black woman have to be this?
00:49Why are you a black woman?
00:50Can't be this?
00:51Why are you black?
00:52What I realized years ago is that I was speaking to my mother subconsciously through
00:55all my writing.
00:56Saying to her, you don't have to stay in this abusive relationship.
00:59Why are you with this man?
01:00You can do better than this.
01:02You deserve love.
01:03And that's the thing that runs through all of these movies when I'm usually writing about
01:07a character.
01:08So, it's even if she's a lawyer and she doesn't have love.
01:12Or if she's a homemaker and she doesn't have love.
01:15My hope is not, I'm not speaking to every black woman.
01:18I'm talking to black women who like my mother.
01:19Got it.
01:20And hoping that they get the love that I wish my mother would have had.
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