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-emergence so if they ignore you, you don't have to disappear.
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.
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.
When the system does not recognize me I'm not devastated. - Haile Gerima
When the system does not recognize me I'm not devastated.
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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