Black people Quote by Tyler Perry

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

Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would be a…

— Mike Epps

Blacks are tired of seeing whites saying, 'I understand you.' You need a black to direct a black film.

— Melvin Van Peebles

I had a burning desire to see black people presented on television in a positive light.

— Don Cornelius

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

When I started, black people were either victims or they were the perpetrators; they were the boogie men who jumped out of the bushes…

— Joe Morton

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

So many killings of black men in my lifetime. The physical shock is astounding.

— Alice Walker

You know what? As a black person, you see so much racism. Films are no different than the government, politics - it's everywhere. It's…

— Elvis Mitchell

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

We were coming out of the black community with this thing called rap music, which was basically black men yelling at the top of…

— Chuck D

It really upsets me that the media insists on turning 'Do the Right Thing' or 'Boyz N the Hood' into 'black films.' They are…

— Bill Duke