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Perfect for fans and those looking for motivation, our collection of Blaxploitation Quotes will inspire and resonate with you. Blaxploitation Quotes

Michael Jai White

The first movie I ever saw was a blaxploitation movie. It was called ‘Monkey Hustle.’ Like I said, just listen to the name. That’s a blaxploitation movie. It had these incredible, bigger-than-life images of people who looked like I did. Or who looked like I wanted to look like.

– Michael Jai White

Michael Jai White

There’s people saying that ‘Jackie Brown’ was a blaxploitation movie, when there’s nothing at all blaxploitation about it other than Pam Grier being in it.

– Michael Jai White

Melvin Van Peebles

What happened when ‘Sweetback’ made all that money, the studios were in a very difficult position. They wanted the money, but they didn’t the message. This marked the advent of the caricatures which became known as blaxploitation.

– Melvin Van Peebles

Keenen Ivory Wayans

I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror.

– Keenen Ivory Wayans

Jason Johnson

In addition to politics, I usually write about super heroes, science fiction and afro-futurism, so a collection of blaxploitation movies from the mid-70s didn’t sound like my ministry at all.

– Jason Johnson

Jason Johnson

Full disclosure, I know as much about Black horror films as I do about blaxploitation films in general, which is little to nothing, and most of what I’ve seen I didn’t like.

– Jason Johnson

Jason Johnson

Blaxploitation films were all about centering Black love, action, pathos and showing Black folks with agency.

– Jason Johnson

Glynn Turman

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 keep the lights on until they could reestablish themselves.

– Glynn Turman

Don Cheadle

I imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much greater preponderance of work then than there is now.

– Don Cheadle

Cheo Hodari Coker

All Blaxploitation is, is the opportunity for an African-American cast or lead actor or actress to do the same things that a white action hero gets to do.

– Cheo Hodari Coker

Adrian Younge

Luke Cage’ came out in 1972 at the height of the blaxploitation era. It was a literary response to this notion of blaxploitation movies. It was the first time in American culture that Hollywood was embracing black movies.

– Adrian Younge

Movies Samuel L Jackson

I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O’Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw ‘The Negro’ get one over on ‘The Man.’

– Samuel L Jackson

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