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Samira Wiley Quotes

2013–2019

Samira Wiley is an American actress. She is best known for her starring role as Poussey Washington in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019) and as Moira in the Hulu dystopian drama series The Handmaid's Tale (2017–2025), for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series.

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I’m just super clear about what I want to do with my voice, and because I have more courage and conviction around it.

The activism projects I’ve been involved with concern me and many of the women I know in my family and workplace

I have a voice. People are looking at you, and you have to choose what you’re going to use that for. It’s kind of not an option to not use it

These men [on The Handmaid’s Tale] have given women a false sense of superiority over each other and have put a divide between these women so they don’t even understand the power they have by supporting one another.

It’s so interesting how fiction can teach you about your own reality. It’s so clear to me in that show how they pit women against each other

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Samira Wiley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.