Art Quote by Amiri Baraka

I personally don't enjoy films that bring black people down. I find that a majority of the films that black people are starred in…

— Drake

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

I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back…

— Spike Lee

Blaxploitation films were black films targeting black people. They were films made to appeal to a culture in a way that was supposed to…

— Adrian Younge

The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has…

— Sidney Poitier

Films portraying successful black people getting married are great, but films that only show one aspect of our culture, bother me.

— Drake

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

— Amandla Stenberg

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

There have been so few decent films involving Negroes that right away everybody expects every film to do everything. But when you make a…

— Jim Brown

A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being…

— Ishmael Reed

The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the 'Negro's' reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.

— Sonia Sanchez

During the last decades, films about the black experience have been produced, directed, and even scripted by white men. Some of them are excellent.…

— Ishmael Reed