Black Quote by Lisa Nicole Carson

Hollywood, it seems, recognizes black film and black filmmakers, but like a distant lover, never close enough or long enough to forge a meaningful…

— Joe Morton

Films portraying successful black people getting married are great, but films that only show one aspect of our culture, bother me.

— Drake

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

— Tim Robbins

Black films and television are growing and getting the recognition... and the opportunities.

— Demetrius Shipp, Jr

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

The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has…

— Sidney Poitier

I feel like there are probably more films about white male friendships than almost any other types of movies.

— Max Joseph

It's hard to find black roles that are just whimsical and fun and colorful. And I think, in many ways, that can be just…

— Amandla Stenberg

I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to stay and build healthy relationships has…

— Hill Harper

If you see black people being portrayed in this one way well then, when you see a black person in real life, you're going…

— KiKi Layne

You know what? As a black person, you see so much racism. Films are no different than the government, politics - it's everywhere. It's…

— Elvis Mitchell

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