エヴァンジェリン・リリーのインスタグラム(evangelinelillyofficial) - 2月21日 23時39分

It’s not about the trimmings, it’s about the truth. Is the leading character a girl or a boy, black or white, gay or straight, right or wrong? I want to see myself on screen and on the pages of a book. I want to be represented. But even more, I want to see the truth. I don’t want to be lied to.
In our quest for equality we are leaving behind wisdom. In our fight for what’s fair we are forgetting what’s true.
Truth: i can relate to a character that doesn’t look, smell or sound like me if truth is in their words and wisdom is in their struggle.

I write stories. I have been asked, so many times, to write stories about tough girls who save the day, who have an impact, who make a difference. I have been advised not to write my stories - stories about characters who look weird and seem only to fail their way through existence. I have been told not to write stories about a character whose skin is a different colour than my own. “Those are not your stories to tell.” I have been told. But those stories CAME FROM IN ME, how can they not be mine? They live and breathe in me. How can they not represent a part of me? My inner world is not populated by heroic, white, female idols. It’s populated by my experiences, by my varied world, by my vast inner pain.
I have thought about giving up on writing my stories. It seems they are the types of stories nobody wants to hear anymore. Even if they’re brimming with truth, the trimmings aren’t right. ”swallowing hooks without lines or intentional rhymes, but, whatever, as long as we dance.” (Song: @benbenabraham #NobodyWantsToHearSongsAnymore)

Well, I won’t write a story by starting with a trimming and then trying to manipulate truth into the space that’s left. I’ve never been inspired by a story like that and they are not in me to tell. Besides, writing them makes me feel much too much like an adult. I will keep writing my own stories - doing that makes me feel how your six-year-old feels on Christmas morning. Let the few get offended on behalf of the unoffended world. The stories must not be for them anyway, for they have rejected innocence and cannot see my truth.

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