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.
There's no other way but struggling, forging ahead to do the film. - Haile Gerima
There's no other way but struggling, forging ahead to do the film.
- Haile Gerima
The system knows how to cherry pick black people. It's like affirmative action - once a year, one is recognized. But what has to occur is self-emerge… - Haile Gerima
The system knows how to cherry pick black people. It's like affirmative action - once a year, one is recognized. But what has to occur is self-emerge…
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… - Haile Gerima
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…
When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction. - Haile Gerima
When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.
When the system does not recognize me I'm not devastated. - Haile Gerima
When the system does not recognize me I'm not devastated.
I think not many young people are willing to pay the price of telling their own story. - Haile Gerima
I think not many young people are willing to pay the price of telling their own story.
For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much. - Haile Gerima
For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.
Most young people make films to be accepted, to be discovered, when in fact that was the last idea with the group I went to film school with. To be d… - Haile Gerima
Most young people make films to be accepted, to be discovered, when in fact that was the last idea with the group I went to film school with. To be d…
I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromis… - Haile Gerima
I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromis…
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