Quotes of: Black-history Keyword

If you take the '70s with Blaxploitation pictures, there was a proliferation of black-content films and motion pictures, television, stage plays and so forth at a time when Hollywood was in trouble financially, and it was cheaper to do black films to...

Glynn Turman

When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My mother was white, and living with a black man at that time and having a how-you-say half-caste boy is not easy.

Ruud Gullit

Inigo Montoya: Who are you? Man in Black: No one of consequence. Inigo Montoya: I must know... Man in Black: Get used to disappointment. Inigo Montoya: 'kay.

The Princess Bride

Jack Sparrow: This is the day you will always remember as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow!

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

[Before Jack steals the Interceptor] Norrington: That is, without doubt, the worst pirate I've ever seen.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Governor Swann: Even a good decision if made for the wrong reasons can be a wrong decision.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Elizabeth: This is the fastest ship in the Caribbean. Anamaria: You can tell them that after they've caught us.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Will Turner: It's not your blood they needed. It was my father's blood. My blood... the blood of a pirate.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

[after inspecting the crew] Jack Sparrow: Satisfied? Will Turner: Well you proved they're mad.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Elizabeth: You're pirates. Hang the code, and hang the rules. They're more like guidelines anyway.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Governor Swann: So, this is the path you've chosen? After all, he is a blacksmith. Elizabeth: No. [pause] Elizabeth: He's a pirate.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Elizabeth: [after Barbossa has cut her hand slightly] That's it? Barbossa: Waste not...

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Jack Sparrow: [to Will Turner] Now as long as you're just hanging there, pay attention.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

[toasting to their new partnership] Jack Sparrow: Take what ye can! Mr. Gibbs: Give nothin' back!

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Elizabeth: I hardly believe in ghost stories anymore, Captain Barbossa.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Norrington: Gillette, Mr. Sparrow has a dawn appointment with the gallows. I would hate for him to miss it.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Mr. Gibbs: The kid's a bit of a stick, isn't he? Jack Sparrow: You have no idea.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Given the historical power differential between blacks and whites, blacks are required to be attentive to the way their white counterparts see themselves in relation to people of color if they want to survive and even thrive.

James A. Forbes

I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university on black people in eighteenth-century Britain - so I'd love to do a Jane Austen-esque film but with black people.

Naomie Harris

My plays are for the kind of black people who relate to funk music, to Parliament-Funkadelic. When those guys get out of a spaceship - the idea that black people are from outer space, there's a poetic truth to that. We are this vast people.

Suzan-Lori Parks

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.

Erykah Badu