Black Quotes - Page 20

• I am more than a black guy. I am a person, I'm storyteller, I'm a son, I'm a friend, so I am all those things so it is frustrating to a degree to be limited by other people's perceptions of me but at the same time, it is true that I am a black guy and it's like I'm rooted in, but not bound by. That sort of mentality, that's the one that I hold to be true.

  Justin Simien

  Son, People, Guy

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It is frustrating having to walk through America having to bob and weave people's impressions of me because they see a tall, black guy walking down the street. That is frustrating.

  Justin Simien

  America, People, Guy

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Just looking at me, I am a Black man. Born and bred, through and through. But I am also a lot of things. I am a father. I am a husband. I am a Christian. I am a comic book geek and I'm a creator.

  Kevin Grevioux

  Christian, Husband, Father

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In terms of viewing the world in a certain way, when you're talking about monsters and talking about the metaphor that you're trying to create, as Black Americans, you oft times stand apart and you have to look at things from the inside out or the outside in.

  Kevin Grevioux

  Talking, Trying, Monsters

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In Europe I couldn't be anything but a black cook working for somebody. My inspiration was to own, to be the chef.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Inspiration, Europe, Chef

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.

  W. Kamau Bell

  Baby, Men, White

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• It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on the side of oppressed people in general.

  W. Kamau Bell

  People, Sides, Comedic

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and green and Bob Marley. That was sort of my window into finding my own identity as a black person.

  W. Kamau Bell

  Teenager, Pride, People

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• There is a linear way in which black comedians are expected to talk about race by all audiences - black people are like this, white people are like this - and it really is hard to break through that. I never was doing it that way.

  W. Kamau Bell

  Race, Break Through, White

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• It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's important to recognize.

  Ketch Secor

  Country, Long Ago, White

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Country music is the combination of African and European folk songs coming together and doing a little waltz right here in the American south. They came together at some cotillion, and somebody snuck a black person into the room, and he danced with a white lady, and music was born.

  Ketch Secor

  Country, Song, White

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There are advances in technology and enabling voices, but there are issues with the stories themselves. I think people of color are still not seen as human beings. They're still associated with types, with comedy, but we're in a crisis right now, with things like Black Lives Matter. We need films that address these issues.

  Charles Burnett

  Technology, Thinking, Color

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I think most people, in their lifetime, have seen somebody who has the ability to use force lord it over other individuals. I see a lot of those videos, and I am disturbed by people being yanked out of their cars, and it seems to be a disproportionate amount of young black men. I'm disturbed by it.

  Rand Paul

  Men, Thinking, People

  "Nine pre-debate questions with Rand Paul". Interview with David Weigel, www.washingtonpost.com. October 28, 2015.

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• If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or your town across his chest, that means something.

  Frank Deford

  Growing Up, Mean, Kids

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I come from the best era of film I believe; when people were taking chances on films. It's time for us to bring more truth to the story and not necessarily carry a torch for every Black person in America; just tell a story, and a good one too.

  Romany Malco

  Believe, America, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It will be difficult if people can't get past their prejudices; I don't mean Black and White; I mean people automatically assume because a film has a predominantly Black cast, that it is a particular quality of film.

  Romany Malco

  Mean, Black And White, Past

  "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About “Think Like A Man,” Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.

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• Black is not a notion. Africa is not a color. Africa is a culture. So you can be pitch black and I am my color but I'm more African than you can ever be because culturally there are certain things that you just don't understand.

  Jihan El-Tahri

  Color, Culture, Certain

  "Africa First 2012 Profile: Advisor Jihan El-Tahri On Pressures, Successes & Criticisms Of Program". Interview with Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. April 10, 2012.

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• Most writers stick to what they know. The black experience is our experience, so it's not that challenging for us. That's why sometimes you'll see writers that start off telling black stories, but later branch out into other material. People say they "sell out." No, they evolve as writers.

  Lena Waithe

  People, Challenges, Stories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I do think it's important for black writers to show that we too can make it into the mainstream. Growing up, I didn't just watch The Cosby Show, I watched Growing Pains and Family Ties too. We can tell those stories too.

  Lena Waithe

  Growing Up, Pain, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Casting is really a black art. It's a huge part of directing and it's the most invisible. It's one that people don't really think about or talk about. But you can really destroy your movie by casting it badly before you've shot a foot of film. And yet there are no guidebooks for it, there's no rule book to tell you how to do it. It's all your own experience and your own sensibility and your own intuition.

  David Cronenberg

  Art, Book, Thinking

  "Cronenberg Talks Intellectual Menage a Trois A Dangerous Method, Knightley’s Bondage". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. November 26, 2011.

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• To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be richer than them.

  Haile Gerima

  People, Cotton, Sugar

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery. That itself is a crime because slavery is a very important historical event that has held our people hostage. Forget white people's role in it. In the end what's important is black people remain and live with the scars and psychological issues.

  Haile Gerima

  White, Issues, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.

  Haile Gerima

  White, People, World

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men.

  Neil Drumming

  Men, Self, White Man

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Wherever there's a prison, for the most part, especially where there's Black people, it's overcrowded. I don't know who really gets out.

  Terry McMillan

  People, Prison, Knows

  Source: www.pbs.org

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