Bees Quote by David Oyelowo

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

I come from the best era of film I believe; when people were taking chances on films. It's time for us to bring more…

— Romany Malco

I think until Britain acknowledges just how much of a presence black people had here before the Sixties, then there are certain stories that…

— David Oyelowo

There are fewer representations of black figures in the historical record.

— Kerry James Marshall

You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think…

— Dougray Scott

Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it…

— Tim Reid

For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients of the…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream.…

— Malcolm D. Lee

My producers and I worked with these consultants and came up with seventy [stories] which we think are exemplary of the larger arc of…

— Henry Louis Gates

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's a lot of black history - my history - that I don't know about.

— Alison Hammond