Black Quote by Judi Love

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

With my representation of a black woman in the world today, there's such a powerful response from my community about what it means to…

— Susan Kelechi Watson

It's perfectly possible to spotlight Black joy over Black suffering. Setting the story in the past doesn't mean that Black folks do nothing but…

— Rege-Jean Page

There is a multitude of experiences that make up the black experience.

— Chance The Rapper

There is an obsession with black tragedy. If you see a black movie, it's typically historical, and it tends to deal with our pain.…

— Justin Simien

The depiction of Black history in British schools and on TV has mainly been trauma and struggle-based.

— Judi Love

You look at 'Survivor's Remorse.' Or 'Blackish.' Or Issa Rae's brilliant, funny 'Insecure,' which started out on YouTube but is now on HBO. And…

— Teyonah Parris

Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is happening, something…

— Ava DuVernay

Obviously I would love to see black filmmakers telling stories about black families, and I think that that's happening and will continue to happen…

— Taylor Russell

I think that for the most part, black people specifically have sort of been used as props in TV shows as a way to…

— Lena Waithe

During the last decades, films about the black experience have been produced, directed, and even scripted by white men. Some of them are excellent.…

— Ishmael Reed

Blackfeet have our own versions of the traumatic history that we collectively still feel. And it's just an ethos in my people that if…

— Lily Gladstone