Black Movie Quotes

• I was born a poor black child.

  Al Gore

  Children, Black, Jerk

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• You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

  Charlton Heston

  Gun, Cold, Fingers

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• We really wanted it to be an action movie. Those are the movies that we love. We're big fans of like Shane Black movies, when we were younger - me and Evan [Goldberg].

  Seth Rogen

  Black, Fans, Action

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• The people who can be helping to make movies that have blacks and Latinos and women and all that - that movie doesn't come to you. Because the idea is that there's no place for black movies.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Ideas, People, Black

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• What!? You tell people that, I won't get no more black movies?

  Chris Tucker

  People, Black

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• Black movies don't have real names, they have names like Barbershop. That's not a name, that's just a location.

  Chris Rock

  Real, Names, Black

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• It's so important to create roles and characters and projects that feature black people in a way that's not specifically targeted toward the niche market, which is, like, a black movie is created and it's produced and pitched so that only black people will watch it ... I want to see dynamic characters and roles that everyone wants to watch.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Character, People, Black

  "Amandla Stenberg Is Ready to Be Your Role Model" by Chaédria Labouvier, www.elle.com. August 12, 2015.

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• I just hate when things get labeled as "black movies." I don't say, "Oh, this weekend, I want to see an all-white movie," or "I want to see a black movie." I just go to a movie because I saw the previews and I relate to it. I want to see it because the previews look interesting.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Hate, Weekend, White

  "Taraji P. Henson Talks Think Like a Man, Person of Interest, Upcoming No Good Deed, and Her Wish to Play Either Whitney Houston or a Superhero". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 16, 2012.

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• Unfortunately, the business is such that, as far as studios are concerned, they judge one quote-unquote black movie on how other ‘black’ movies have done, even if they have nothing to do with each other  It’s too bad we can’t do well on our own merit when it comes to the studios. They don’t like to take risks and, unfortunately, we’re still considered a huge risk, even though I don’t think we are.

  Taye Diggs

  Thinking, Judging, Risk

  "Black Actors’ Roles Are No Longer ‘Just The Black Best Friend Or The Crackhead’" by Danielle Cadet, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2014.

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• I fell asleep during 'Year One' twice. And my son, who never falls asleep during a Jack Black movie, also nodded off. That's how bad it was. I was incredibly disappointed.

  Denis Leary

  Fall, Son, Years

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