Black Quote by Pam Grier Download Open image “I'm still trying to do films about black women.” — Pam Grier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Black Black women Cinema Film Stills Trying
I like the idea of having historical films about black women who are just having fun. — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema… — Spike Lee Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making all-black films - I come from a very diverse culture; I want to work with every type of person.… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film. — Candice Patton Copy Share Image
I was determined to make a movie - about families and a love story - that black women would be proud to see and… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
Films portraying successful black people getting married are great, but films that only show one aspect of our culture, bother me. — Drake Copy Share Image
The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't think it's a problem that's… — Aunjanue Ellis Copy Share Image
There’s something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It’s a different perspective. It is a reflection… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
. . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to be somehow… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
If you're going to make black movies only about black people, that's as bad as white movies only about white people. — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers. — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
I never thought I was pretty. I couldn't even put on eyelashes or makeup. — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it. — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
Yes, you can have art films about the triumph of the human spirit and all of that, but you'll have it done with a big-budget icon with a $20 million salary. You'll have Julia Roberts, you'll have Robert Redford, you'll have Russell Crowe doing those films, because if they're going to cost $90 million, they're going to make that movie… — Pam Grier Copy Share
You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom. — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist. — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
I never went in thinking, "You're an African-American woman, so you're never going to win." I was just in career doing beauty pageants for the experience, and to show my brains and talent and help break stereotypes. It wasn't like, "Oh, I'll become a star. I'm beautiful." I never thought I was pretty. I couldn't even put on eyelashes or… — Pam Grier Copy Share
Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won. — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative. — Pam Grier Copy Share
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share
The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and… — Colin Marston Copy Share Image
We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black people... The question for black people is not, when is the white man going to give us our rights, or when is he going to give us good education for our children, or when is he… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt - until recently... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share
Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize the final soliloquy of Clay, the protagonist in LeRoi Jones’ (aka Amiri Baraka’s) play Dutchman. You’d better be glad Charlie Parker could play him some horn and Bessie Smith could sing, because if they didn’t make music they… — Frank B. Wilderson III Copy Share
Hollywood is so fixated on keeping it that way because it's generating the buzz, but that representation isn't right. I definitely feel like it's getting better - it's not only for blacks, but for people that are of all different skin colors. It is very important that black independent films get seen. We need to start getting used to black… — John Boyega Copy Share
