America Quote by Romany Malco

I think that if we really want to break it down, that non-black filmmakers have had many, many years and many, many opportunities to…

— Ava DuVernay

The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery. That itself…

— Haile Gerima

A lot of young black people in America, and even in Africa and Brazil, would say that they are telling their story, but most…

— Haile Gerima

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 think the whole stigma of 'black movies' is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like '12 Years A Slave,' to 'The…

— Kevin Hart

We have African-Americans and black people getting behind the scenes more and more, we get true black images in television and film...because we have…

— Keke Palmer

Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it…

— Tim Reid

I feel like part of my journey as a filmmaker is to tell different stories, whether they are just a black perspective on things…

— Flying Lotus

Back in the 1970s, it was mostly all-black audiences coming into the theaters. So, we presented stories they could relate to.

— Rudy Ray Moore

The funny thing about cinema is, usually when they do a story that has African Americans in it, there always has to be a…

— Jim Brown

At the height of segregation, with every film role and public appearance, Poitier redeemed Black folks' dignity by pushing back against the relentlessly negative…

— Jonathan Capehart

The black community has for a long time been a part of the Hollywood community, and of course we would love to have a…

— Rza