Best Quote by Jason Johnson

Without question, 'The Underground Railroad' is beautifully filmed, and for the most part well acted. The show also manages to do something that I…

— Jason Johnson

The American 'slave genre' of films has picked up some good and bad cliches over the years and, unfortunately, 'The Underground Railroad' seems to…

— Jason Johnson

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other…

— Henry Louis Gates

As a white, female, half-Jewish writer, when I read 'The Underground Railroad,' it reminded me that America isn't just the sort of Sesame Street…

— Jenna Blum

In the beginning this was just an idea. Then it was a short story. Then it was a script. Each step was pretty exciting…

— Steven C. Harper

In 'Underground,' you have to write for everyone, even the bad guys. People need to laugh and love and have voices and do bad…

— Misha Green

To be honest, it was slavery. Nobody should have any romantic ideas about working underground. It's very, very dangerous. You always knew you were…

— Dennis Skinner

The story of the Underground Railroad is the story of American heroes, and who doesn't want to hear a story about American heroes?

— Misha Green

“Slaveowners in America were torturing the Africans they enslaved for reading, but the British had discovered the hard way of truth of the maxim…

— Elizabeth Nunez

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

— Charles de Lint

When I was reading 'The Underground Railroad,' I had to actually hold my hand over the right-hand page so I wouldn't see, by mistake,…

— Jenna Blum

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