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Haile Gerima Quotes

b. 1946

Haile Gerima (born 19 Mrch 1946)is an Ethiopian filmmaker who lives and works in the United States. He is a leading member of the L.A.

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45 quotes

The only thing new on this earth is the artist. Their voice is new, and it’s their job to empower it, not to kill it with the committee of mainstream film culture

It’s a bad knowledge for a Black person to think I was the first anything, and to accept that is to kill every Black effort before him or herself. I hate that—more than racism

I don't calculate when I write. I vomit when I write. I don't sanitize things

It is important for me to know that there were many filmmakers before me. I’m not the first to discover Black film—there are other Black people

Without struggle, there is no life

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Haile Gerima (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.