Black Family Quotes
Reflections on black family life and representation
This page gathers quotes about black family life, from filmmakers choosing to tell grounded black family stories to fans thanking them for honest representation.
People come up and say, 'Thank you' for showing a black family loving their masculine-presenting child and for undoing the myth of black people as being rabidly homophobic.
I don't like to see projects that are all black or all white. It's how life is. I do like to make sure that I do a nice black family film; that's like keeping my home base. I do other...
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A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.
I think that many black people thought this would be a wonderful and extraordinary thing, for a black family to occupy the White House. Not only black people; a lot of white people thought that, too, but particularly black people.
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I got agitated at the idea that racism is a Southern thing. Did you hear about the cross-burning out here? A black family moved into an upper-middle-class Los Angeles suburb and found a cross burning on their lawn. Swastikas are...
I wanted to make a movie about a black family in Middle America. I wanted to make a film where everyone can look at them and say, 'This is my family.'
We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.
All the networks have always been willing to have ethnic people as the third or fourth lead or the best friend to the white person. But to actually let a black family or an Asian family carry a show, that's...
The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.
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Other lines look at integrated communities and the historic weight many felt watching a black family occupy the White House.
