I read slave narratives, books like Bullwhip Days…

They did laugh; they did fall in love. And while they were under incredibly oppressive conditions, they constantly were trying to steal pleasures. When…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

I watched a documentary called 'Plastic Oceans' on Netflix, and it was an eye-opener for me.

— Kevin Anderson

The very first film, documentary that I made, was called 'The First Year.' It was 11 years ago and I followed these five novice…

— Davis Guggenheim

When I graduated from Brown after majoring in women's studies, I made my first PBS documentary, 'Women of Substance.' My first feature documentary was…

— Rory Kennedy

The slave narratives, there is a wealth of research there, because you are hearing stories from the first person account, and that's a whole…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Pleas for white acceptance of black humanity have a long and terrible history in America, stretching back to the first slave narratives.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race. For example,…

— Glenn Ligon

Everybody has told the story of black people in struggle except black people. The black people in the struggle haven't had the means to…

— DeRay Mckesson

Frankly, Django is an American story that needs to be told, when you think of slavery existing in this country for 245 years. In…

— Quentin Tarantino

There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.

— Anonymous

A wealth of knowledge is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms of the…

— Suzy Kassem

But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge…

— Aaron Swartz

The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the organized efforts…

— William Wickenden

An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties…

— H. G. Wells