Quotes from Haile Gerima

Success is really when you create a space, a piece of art, and people come in and say, that's my story - when they claim it.

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.

Tarantino is a spoiled little white kid. He can do any movie he wants and nobody can do anything about it.

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.

For me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I'm not powerful enough to amass the resources to keep doing movies every two or three years.