About Quote by Chiwetel Ejiofor

When '12 Years a Slave' got that much attention, everyone started to copy that. That story has to be told, but there are a…

— Louis Gossett, Jr

The story of slavery is everybody's story. It is the story about how we're all shaped by, regardless of race, regardless of how long…

— Lonnie Bunch

The slave narratives, there is a wealth of research there, because you are hearing stories from the first person account, and that's a whole…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability…

— Maya Angelou

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument…

— John Brown

There is this pressure for us to only tell stories about slavery and the civil rights era, but there are many of us that…

— Nia DaCosta

Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view…

— Jeffrey Wright

I dont think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument…

— John Brown

Slavery was a violent, brutal, immoral system, and in accurately depicting how it worked, you have to include that, obviously. Or else you are…

— Colson Whitehead

Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and…

— Bryan Stevenson

I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown…

— Wynton Marsalis

“The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to it. It…

— Clint Smith