Black Quote by Dorothy B. Porter

I thought that, as a black audience member, I would like to see something that reflected an experience that's not normally exhibited in documentaries,…

— Elvis Mitchell

“Through her voice I saw a free woman, down on her land, a woman who knew how to kill her own chickens, hunt her…

— Bonnie Greer

I wanted to show the history and strength of all kinds of black women. Working women, country women, urban women, great women in the…

— Elizabeth Catlett

I'm still trying to do films about black women.

— Pam Grier

“Black Women save lives”

— Malebo Sephodi

“The Black Woman is amazingly strong, truly powerful, deeply visionary, has incredible worth and much love and goodness within that she is willing to…

— Rebecca Gordon

Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.

— Frances M. Beal

I like the idea of having historical films about black women who are just having fun.

— Nia DaCosta

In a one-hour documentary, you can tell maybe ten stories. That's how the documentary is structured. I wrote to forty of the greatest historians…

— Henry Louis Gates

We need to encourage black women to know that they are authors of their own destiny, that they have important stories to tell, and…

— Michaela Coel

“Shout out to all the Black writers who push the world forward by sharing the stories, lives, history, imaginations and magic of black culture.…

— Blitberry

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

— Alison Hammond