I'm a prison abolitionist ...

I\'m a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It\'s horrible.
I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.
 Ava DuVernay

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I did not have any problem with speaking up because my mother, my family, my grandmother, my aunt - I grew up in a family dominated by women - always encouraged me to do so. And if a girl is unafraid, then the world is her oyster.
 Ava DuVernay
What we tried to do in 13th was get to the bottom of that. What were they motivated by? But certainly the attention that the Attorney General's office paid to it allowed for there to be some dialogue across the aisle that I think were the first steps then in change.
 Ava DuVernay
If you have the ability to do something, you should do it.
 Ava DuVernay
I think there are a lot of people in this industry that have the ability, that have the position, they have the opportunity, they have the privilege to call the shots and could do it too.
 Ava DuVernay
I love making films. I'm happiest when I'm doing it. For me, the fear is not being able to make the next thing and not being able, as a woman filmmaker and as a filmmaker of color, to put together the resources to make another thing.
 Ava DuVernay