00:00You are capable of great feats of strength and courage.
00:08My grandmother told me that movies turned her dreams into something resembling stories.
00:13But the on-screen crushing of Black Hope was institutional.
00:16When I was a kid, kid, you know, Stephen Fetchy, Willie Best, Buckwheat.
00:21But I still wanted to be them.
00:23One decade answered the question, what happens to a dream deferred?
00:27Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
00:31Or does it explode?
00:37This is the story about a group of artists that changed the culture forever.
00:43These movies were about us.
00:46That's a nice change.
00:49The music.
00:52The style.
00:55The heroes.
00:56You want the black guy with you.
00:58Because he's going to help you get out.
01:00When Billy Dee Williams came on, every woman in Ottawa was hollering.
01:05I fell in love with myself.
01:07I said, my goodness gracious.
01:11You see your role as a positive force or a negative woman.
01:15And when we made the film, about the way things actually are.
01:19All the artists, since I know them personally, are responsible people who are concerned about
01:26what is happening in the black community.
01:30Movies is the stuff of fantasies.
01:32I needed a black cowboy.
01:34First and foremost, I'm an artist.
01:36You've got to walk in like it's yours.
01:38They were proof that we were here, that we create culture, that we have voices.
01:47And that we will be heard.
01:49I'm a black enough for you!
01:56It ain't what it's gonna be.
01:58I', there we go.
02:09Thank you.
02:09I'm a black.
02:10It ain't what's gonna be.
02:10And tell us.
02:11Yeah.
02:11Yeah.
02:17Yeah.
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