Biased Quote by Jeffrey Wright

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

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

Everybody has told the story of black people in struggle except black people. The black people in the struggle haven't had the means to…

— DeRay Mckesson

Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race. For example,…

— Glenn Ligon

“let them behold him scourged, hunted, trampled on, and they will come back with another story in their mouths. Let them know the heart…

— Solomon Northup

“You think there’s no detriment in a slave learning to read? There are sad truths in our world, and one is that slaves who…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“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

The argument for '12 Years a Slave' was that - yes, it's a beautiful film. Beautifully shot, beautifully acted. It's a real story, and…

— Joe Morton

“The white author, educated by the black nursemaid who also cured his illnesses and accepted his first searching caresses, was the “racial democrat” who…

— Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr

The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

“While adoration periodically crept into the relationships between slaves and overseers, their most unsavory interactions provided the inexplicable narrative for a dark period in…

— Trevor P. Wardlaw

“They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived…

— Solomon Northup