African american Quote by Salim Akil

I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream.…

— Malcolm D. Lee

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

I don't think there's enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

There were many African Americans - many, many stories similar to my story.

— Claudette Colvin

As an African-American actor, a lot of our stories haven't been told.

— Chadwick Boseman

From adolescence to death there is something very personal about being a Negro in America.

— Jay Saunders Redding

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

I don't walk around all the time thinking of myself as African American, but oftentimes in Hollywood, you are reminded of that in ways…

— Salim Akil

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

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

As I came into myself as a young Black woman, I realized there's a whole type of person and human experience that is just…

— Nia DaCosta

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