59 Quotes by Roger Ross Williams

Don't boycott the Oscars. Staying away from something that needs to change is no way to change it. Instead, let's help them lead the way in promoting diversity in Hollywood.

The war against homosexuality in Uganda is fueled by the funds of American Christian missionary churches.

Hollywood has to diversify.

All racism is wrong, and denying that it exists does not make it go away.

I didn't have a lot of exposure to films as a kid, and I never went to the cinema. I had a single mom who just planted me in front of the television. But while growing up, I lived in my own fantasy world.

Why should someone be allowed to remain a voting member of the Academy if they are no longer active in the industry?

All too often, white documentary filmmakers are the ones telling the stories of people of color.

The establishment wants to connect with people who are like them, and I wasn't. I'm a black gay man from a poor working-class family. Most of the people who look like me are in prison.

I went to church every Sunday and sang in the choir. But for all that the church gave me - for all that it represented belonging, love and community - it also shut its doors to me as a gay person. That experience left me with the lifelong desire to explore the power of religion to transform lives or destroy them.