Appeals Quote by Adrian Younge

Blaxploitation films were all about centering Black love, action, pathos and showing Black folks with agency.

— Jason Johnson

All Blaxploitation is, is the opportunity for an African-American cast or lead actor or actress to do the same things that a white action…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

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

— Adrian Younge

I have been in films before where people have been in a rush to label them as a Black film or even as a…

— David Oyelowo

If you take the '70s with Blaxploitation pictures, there was a proliferation of black-content films and motion pictures, television, stage plays and so forth…

— Glynn Turman

I had talked to my agent a lot over the years about not being interested in stereotypical "black films" [because] I didn't like the…

— Zoe Kravitz

The problem with black cinema in its current form is on the one hand it is the only game in town; it's a very…

— Arthur Jafa

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

— Kevin Hart

It really upsets me that the media insists on turning 'Do the Right Thing' or 'Boyz N the Hood' into 'black films.' They are…

— Bill Duke

'Black film,' that term allows studios to just marginalize a movie and say, 'We've made our black film. We've made our film with people…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

Films with predominantly white casts can come in any form, tell any story, big or small. For black films, you have the light, fluffy…

— Justin Simien

Perhaps, despite my objections, the success of films like: 'The Help,' 'Django,' 'The Butler,' or '12 Years a Slave,' will further persuade Hollywood to…

— Joe Morton