“We are all bound thither; we are hastening to the same common goal. Black death calls all things under the sway of its laws. [Lat., Tendimus huc omnes; metam properamus ad unam. Omnia sub leges mors vocat atra suas.]” LawDeathGoalBlackCommonAll ThingsBoundsAdsCommon GoalBlack Death Author:Ovid
“I think we're entering a new period of filmmaking that's analogous to switching from black-and-white to color, or from silent to sound. The medium is completely flexible, and it's not bound by anything. If you imagine something, you can do it.” IfsThinkingSoundBlackCan DoWhiteImagineColorPeriodsSilentBoundsMediumsFilmmakingBlack And WhiteEnteringYou Can Do ItFlexibleSwitching Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet
“'You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we . . .' She turned her head right, left, and her black hair curled and uncurled on the shoulder of her coat. 'We have our dull, circled lives, bound in gravity, worshiping you!'” WorldLeftBlackStepsSkyLandHairBoundsShouldersDullGravityTravelerCoatsAstronautSpace TravelBlack Hair Author:Samuel R. Delany
“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.” PeoplePersonsGuyBlackSonDegreesPerceptionBoundsBeing TrueMentalityRootedStorytellerFrustratingBlack Guys Author:Justin Simien