Black Quote by James McBride

The way black people feel, especially, is if you're going to tell a black story, let it come from a real place.

— Algee Smith

It's important to tell the story you're telling in the right way, which might involve black people or people of whatever heritage or ethnicity…

— Ethan Coen

If a white filmmaker is going to tell a story about a Black family, then because they get all the opportunities that they get,…

— Taylor Russell

The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery. That itself…

— Haile Gerima

Most writers stick to what they know. The black experience is our experience, so it's not that challenging for us. That's why sometimes you'll…

— Lena Waithe

Some stories aren't black and white.

— CJ Roberts

There's not one black narrative. There's not one way to be black.

— Yvonne Orji

We as Black people have to tell our own stories. We have to document our history. When we allow someone else to document our…

— Erykah Badu

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black…

— Anonymous

I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American…

— Ishmael Reed

“The time has come to realize that the interracial drama acted out on the American continent has not only created a new black man,…

— James Baldwin