Black people Quote by Baratunde Thurston

There are still plenty of movie people peddling black stereotypes. I guess Tyler Perry's probably the most massively successful.

— Paul Mooney

African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perrys career.…

— Lynn Nottage

I think that if we really want to break it down, that non-black filmmakers have had many, many years and many, many opportunities to…

— Ava DuVernay

There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black…

— Anonymous

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

Every black film feels like it's Tyler Perry, and that just needs to stop. But people seem to slowly be looking for what else…

— Issa Rae

People know Tyler Perry, and there are standards they've come to expect from him. His brand is uplifting, and it's something a lot of…

— Michael Jai White

I feel like part of my journey as a filmmaker is to tell different stories, whether they are just a black perspective on things…

— Flying Lotus

I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story…

— Al Sharpton

When you're black in Hollywood, you know, your first role is going to be on a crime drama. That's - everybody knows that.

— Terry Crews

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

When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and…

— Chris Tucker