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As part of The Hollywood Reporter's Emmy roundtable series, Singleton spoke candidly about his reputation and the unwavering commitment he had to telling narratives that had never been told before. Singleton died at the age of 51.
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00:00I think part of my reputation comes back because, you know, I started features that I don't like is that
00:06I'm some, like, black militant, like, guy, like, really serious and, like, I don't like white people, you know, it's
00:12just, it's like, dude, it's like, I think I'm pretty charismatic, you know, I do, you know, like, I'm like,
00:18you know, but otherwise, I just don't like people, I just like people trying to subvert my vision of what
00:25I think, you know, I'm kind of a goofball, you know, I'm funny, I'm
00:29self-effacing and everything, but I'm very serious about telling the narrative that hasn't been told before, and what I
00:36don't like is when I have people who are not from various cultures that I'm trying to tell a story,
00:42tell me, dictate to me what they think it is.
00:45Where I'm from, like, you know, you know, I grew up in an area, you know, where, you know, called
00:50the 107 Hoover Crips, and so I'm like that to the executives, like, you're not gonna fucking tell me what
00:57my story is.
00:58I don't feel there's a lot of people of color in the business that feel comfortable saying it's gonna be
01:04like this, I don't care what the hell you say, and I've gone through that throughout my, I started when
01:10I was 22 years old,
01:11so it's like, what the hell can you tell me? It's like, you know, like, you said that this wasn't
01:15gonna work, and it worked, and then you said this stuff was gonna work, and it all
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