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.
Haile GerimaSuccess 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.
Haile GerimaI 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 compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.
Haile GerimaIf you never did anything for your own freedom, you're not worth a human being in my view.
Haile Gerima