Black Quote by Terrence Howard

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

We need more Black artists writing, performing, directing, and producing Black stories on the main stage - and not just in February!

— Leslie Uggams

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 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

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

There is an appetite for things that are different and a story with Black characters that's going to appeal to a lot of people.

— Cord Jefferson

What is accurately portrayed is the rich humanity not just of Martin Luther King but of the movement, which was a multiracial movement. You…

— Cornel West

As black people we were out to further our equality. I don't pay attention to the controversial connotations put on by media and the…

— Chuck D

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

As black people, we want our story to be this constant ascendance from slavery. But it's not like that. You push and it goes…

— Stanley Nelson Jr

What I hope is that this wider pattern of films about slavery that's emerging isn't just a fad but evidence that we've turned a…

— Amma Asante

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