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Black Quotes by Ava DuVernay
- There’s something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It’s a different perspective. It is a reflection as…
- I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.
- I make films about black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a black man, doesn't mean that he can't see…
- As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m interested in the…
- Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is happening, something funny…
- Time will tell ... whether folks want to point and stare at the black woman filmmaker who made a certain kind of film, and pat…
- 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 tell…
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- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
- Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s. — Dan Aykroyd
- It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over… — Erykah Badu
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
- Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James A. Baldwin
- The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. — James A. Baldwin
- They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be… — Afrika Bambaataa