Black Movie Quotes

“How do you expect me to dance
when every day someone
who looks like everyone
I love is in a gun fight
armed only with skin?”
― Danez Smith, Black Movie

“who has time for joy? how do you expect me to dance when every day someone who looks like everyone I love is in a gun fight armed only with skin?”
― Danez Smith, Black Movie

“think: once”
― Danez Smith, Black Movie

“Besides, the only reason
I want to make this is for that first scene anyway: the little black boy
on the bus with a toy dinosaur, his eyes wide & endless

his dreams possible, pulsing, & right there.”
― Danez Smith, Black Movie

“the king's throne is wet with his brother's blood”
― Danez Smith, Black Movie