African american Quote by Kenneth Edmonds

I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against…

— Gregory Hines

I think it's a wonderful thing to have African-American characters. Look at life. It's not a white world or a black world; there are…

— Darius McCrary

I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream.…

— Malcolm D. Lee

Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Unfortunately, we don't have a depth of African scriptwriters, so it's easier to Africanize something that already works. Local script writers are giving me…

— Mo Abudu

American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that…

— Chester Himes

There are some stories I want to tell that I think it'd be cool to see an African-American dude do.

— Chadwick Boseman

If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the…

— Martin Scorsese

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

The Afro-American is not a bestial race. If this work can contribute in any way towards proving this, and at the same time arouse…

— Ida B. Wells

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

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

My husband [Julius Tennon] and I started a production company. We've already optioned a book and some scripts to do exactly that, to create…

— Viola Davis