Crisis Quote by Boots Riley

There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.

— James Earl Jones

To be a black person is to come from a long bloodline of survivors and storytellers, with a resilience that people can't even comprehend.

— Lena Waithe

There was nothing around me that would have given me heroes who happened to be Black. And I don't think anybody can understand how…

— Paterson Joseph

Black America surely faces an existential crisis, but not the one imagined in the condescending news media - of somehow getting non-black America to…

— James Howard Kunstler

Black storytelling can be about anything, absolutely anything, and within that it can be as enriching, as complex, beautiful, ugly as anything else. We…

— Paterson Joseph

There is an appetite for things that are different and a story with Black characters that's going to appeal to a lot of people.

— Cord Jefferson

There's this idea that many of the attitudes and personality developments in black folks in the diaspora are a consequence of this unresolved trauma.…

— Kerry James Marshall

“I asked another friend what it's like being the mother of a black son. "The condition of black life is one of mourning," she…

— Claudia Rankine

If you see black people being portrayed in this one way well then, when you see a black person in real life, you're going…

— KiKi Layne

Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their efforts, their value systems, their culture, their religion and…

— Steven Biko

I wanted to make sure the focus [in The Land] was on human beings themselves and their decisions, but still connected to the urban…

— Steven Caple Jr

The black woman as a concept has an identity largely based on archaic tropes. This same woman as reality, however, exists at the unfortunate…

— Jerrika Hinton