Black movie Quotes

I was born a poor black child.

— Al Gore

If you're going to make black movies only about black people, that's as bad as white movies only about white people.

— Rita Moreno

Black movies don't have real names, they have names like Barbershop. That's not a name, that's just a location.

— Chris Rock

I grew up on Shane Black movies, and I grew up on Joel Silver movies.

— Ryan Gosling

What!? You tell people that, I won't get no more black movies?

— Chris Tucker

You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

— Charlton Heston

I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the…

— Concha Buika

The people who can be helping to make movies that have blacks and Latinos and women and all that - that movie…

— Whoopi Goldberg

I grew up on a very specific diet of certain weird movies. Of course, being black, there are more black movies in…

— Baron Vaughn

'Luke Cage' came out in 1972 at the height of the blaxploitation era. It was a literary response to this notion of…

— Adrian Younge

I fell asleep during 'Year One' twice. And my son, who never falls asleep during a Jack Black movie, also nodded off.…

— Denis Leary

We really wanted it to be an action movie. Those are the movies that we love. We're big fans of like Shane…

— Seth Rogen

I think the whole stigma of 'black movies' is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like '12 Years A Slave,'…

— Kevin Hart

Unfortunately, the business is such that, as far as studios are concerned, they judge one quote-unquote black movie on how other ‘black’…

— Taye Diggs

At some point, all black movies became biopics. All the good, serious ones became biopics. 'Ray,' 'Ali'... those types of movies, those…

— Martine Syms

It's so important to create roles and characters and projects that feature black people in a way that's not specifically targeted towards…

— Amandla Stenberg

I just hate when things get labeled as "black movies." I don't say, "Oh, this weekend, I want to see an all-white…

— Taraji P. Henson

Many times, I get young people asking, 'What do you think about black movies?' And I say, 'What are you talking about?…

— Melvin Van Peebles

It's so important to create roles and characters and projects that feature black people in a way that's not specifically targeted toward…

— Amandla Stenberg

There is an obsession with black tragedy. If you see a black movie, it's typically historical, and it tends to deal with…

— Justin Simien