“To me the industry has always said that the lovers and haters and principal characters will always be white in Hollywood, and black people will always be appendages of those kinds of dramas, or they will be comedic outlets. It will never change.” PeopleKindSaidCharacterBlackWhiteIndustryLoversDramaHollywoodBlack PeoplePrincipalOutletsNever ChangeComedic Author:Haile Gerima
“Would movie moguls release a film portraying Adolph Hitler as a great benefactor of the Jews? Hardly. Would they release a movie if the black community found it to be highly disparaging? No way. You better believe these executives would also think long and hard before they released a movie offensive to American Indians, Muslims homosexuals or virtually any affinity group. Yet, to most movie industries a film which offends millions of Christians is fine and dandy.” IfsThinkingWayBelieveLongHardChristianFilmFoundBlackCommunityReligiousMillionsGroupsFineIndustryJewReleaseExecutivesOffensiveHomosexualAmerican IndianAffinityPortrayingBlack CommunityBenefactorsDandyMovie IndustryMogulsDisparagingAdolph Hitler Author:Donald Wildmon
“Most of life is grey, with a little tiny bit of black and white. We're always subject to what I call the compression industry, which is an attempt to compress a million shades of grey with a little bit of black and white to just a hundred, or to ten, or to one!” LittlesLife IsBitsBlackWhiteMillionsSubjectsIndustryTenLittle BitHundredTinyShadeBlack And WhiteGreyShades Of GreyCompression Author:Bill Henson
“What is the problem with the advertising industry is they're still, for me, what I call in Africa is the colonial mind of white men, because the black person or the other colour is out of the line. They're not good for this sort of purpose.” MenMindPersonsStillsProblemPurposeBlackLinesWhiteIndustryAdvertisingColourWhite ManBlack PersonAdvertising Industry Author:Berhan Ahmed
“In the music industry it's just you're either Black or white, and this is the box you get put in.” BlackWhiteIndustryBoxesMusic IndustryBlack Or White Author:India.Arie
“The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years.” PeopleYearsBlackFourIndustryAbortionBlack People Author:John Piper
“No one is calling any of these designers racist. The act itself is racist. There were more black models working in the Seventies than there are in 2013. This a time when silence is not acceptable at all. If the conversation cannot be had publicly in our industry, then there is something inherently wrong.” IfsBlackSilenceIndustryCallingConversationModelsDesignerRacistAcceptableSilence IsSeventies Author:Iman Abdulmajid
“I just have to live my truth and know that it's okay to rock on my own vibration, because I'm me. I try to stand by that code, especially as a young Black woman in this industry. I try to walk the walk and talk the talk.” KnowsTryingYoungBlackMy OwnWalksRocksIndustryOkayCodeBlack WomenVibrationsMy Truth Author:V. Bozeman
“Before the 90s, black metal wasn't a selling tool [and didn't] have money behind it. Then it became a pop sensation. Now that the record industry has collapsed and started to rot, things are livening up a bit again.” BitsBlackBehindsRecordsIndustryToolsPopsSellingSensationsMetalsBlack Metal Author:Mat McNerney
“If you love Black people, why are you destroying Haiti? If you love Black people, why did you, [Hillary] Clinton, stop them from the rice that they were producing in Haiti to feed themselves and other Caribbean nations? You put the rice industry out of business; and now rice is coming from Arkansas, chicken coming from Arkansas, when it once was growing right there in Haiti.” PeopleIfsNationsBlackGrowingIndustryClintonChickensDestroyingBlack PeopleRiceHaitiCaribbeanArkansas Author:Louis Farrakhan
“[Black-ish creator] Kenya Bariss wrote on Girlfriends. We've been friendly since then. He sent me [the pilot] and said, "I wrote it for you." But I know what that means in this industry.” KnowsMeanSaidBlackIndustryCreatorGirlfriendFriendlyPilotsKenya Author:Tracee Ellis Ross
“When I think about the auto-industry and how it was one of the industries that brought all of these black men from the South to Michigan and other places to make more money than they could ever make in the cotton fields or the agricultural world of the South... what's happening now is all of that is closing down, and we know that it's going to reopen in Southern places, focusing on Mexican and other migrant workers to come and work cheaply and get none of the benefits.” ThinkingKnowsMenWorldBlackFieldsIndustryBenefitsHappeningsDown AndSouthWorkersSouthernMore MoneyMexicanClosingCottonMichiganMigrantsAuto IndustryClosing DownCotton FieldsMigrant Workers Author:Bell Hooks
“If the white man can come here uneducated and as an immigrant, and within 10 or 15 years set up an industry that provides job opportunities and educational opportunities for black people, then if the black man, the black leadership, who has access to all of this money and has all of these degrees today, can't use his talent and his know-how to set up business opportunities, job opportunities, housing opportunities for the black people the same as the white leaders have done for white people, then these black leaders need to get off the boat.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenNeedsYearsDoneUseTodayJobsOpportunityBlackWhiteLeaderKnow HowTalentIndustryDegreesEducationalAccessBoatImmigrantsBlack PeopleWhite ManHousingUneducatedBusiness OpportunityJob Opportunities Author:Malcolm X
“Is there deeply embedded change within our industry? And I would say, as a black filmmaker, it's easy for me to focus my attention on black work, but true change would include brown work, and it would include work by Asian-Americans, and it would include natives, and it would include women, and it would include more LGBTQ voices.” EasyBlackVoiceAttentionFocusIndustryFilmmakerBrownAsianEmbeddedAsian American Author:Ava DuVernay