Quote by Kurt Weill

Time will tell ... whether folks want to point and stare at the black woman filmmaker who made a certain kind of film, and…

— Ava DuVernay

“The Black Woman is amazingly strong, truly powerful, deeply visionary, has incredible worth and much love and goodness within that she is willing to…

— Rebecca Gordon

Look at Sridevi. She is going to be remembered forever for her films.

— Chunky Pandey

“My grandmother, more than any other woman, was the standard bearer of Gardnerian beauty. Known as “The Black Witch” by our enemies, she was…

— Laurie Forest

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

— Gabrielle Union

“As Lucy Hughes-Hallett (1990: 253) puts it, her reputation for beauty, though unsupported by any historical evidence, was unassailable, but it was not consonant…

— Richard Dyer

All black art is always judged to illuminate our experience and prove that our stories and our history and our lives matter. And that…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

“13 Ways of Looking at a Black Girl”

— Morgan Parker

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

I'm still trying to do films about black women.

— Pam Grier

“In high school, I developed a new love: acting. I went to a predominantly black and Latino school in Compton and, outside of television,…

— Issa Rae

I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university on black…

— Naomie Harris