Black Quote by RaMell Ross

Black storytelling can be about anything, absolutely anything, and within that it can be as enriching, as complex, beautiful, ugly as anything else. We…

— Paterson Joseph

I lived and worked in photography in Hale County, Alabama for almost 15 years. Sometimes there I feel like I have no race and…

— RaMell Ross

I spent 12 years of my life writing stories without black people. That's insane to me. It's insane that I could have believed in…

— Tomi Adeyemi

There was nothing around me that would have given me heroes who happened to be Black. And I don't think anybody can understand how…

— Paterson Joseph

There's not one black narrative. There's not one way to be black.

— Yvonne Orji

I just want to tell black stories.

— Daniel Kaluuya

The way black people feel, especially, is if you're going to tell a black story, let it come from a real place.

— Algee Smith

The black experience for me has been very interesting. Some days, I wake up, and I feel really black. Some days, I'm like, 'This…

— Jessica Williams

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

I can't stop thinking about the devaluation of black life, and I find it seeping into everything I write.

— Jesmyn Ward

To be a black person is to come from a long bloodline of survivors and storytellers, with a resilience that people can't even comprehend.

— Lena Waithe

There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.

— James Earl Jones