Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Marlon Riggs

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Marlon Troy Riggs was an American filmmaker, educator, poet, and gay rights activist. He produced, wrote, and directed several documentary films, including Ethnic Notions, Tongues Untied, Color Adjustment, and Black Is...Black Ain't. His films examine past and present representations of race and sexuality in the United States. The Marlon Riggs Collection is housed at Stanford University Libraries.

American - Filmmaker | February 3, 1957 - April 5, 1994

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As long as I have work then I'm not going to die, cause work is a living spirit in me - that which wants to connect with other people and pass on something to them which they can use in their own lives and grow from.

Marlon Riggs

When nobody speaks your name, or even knows it, you, knowing it, must be the first to speak it.

Marlon Riggs

Silence is my weapon, silence is my shield.

Marlon Riggs

Silence kills the soul; it diminishes its possibilities to rise and fly and explore. Silence withers what makes you human. The soul shrinks, until it's nothing.

Marlon Riggs

So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.

Marlon Riggs

It is necessary to constantly remind ourselves that we are not an abomination.

Marlon Riggs

Black men loving black men is THE revolutionary act.

Marlon Riggs

My struggle has allowed me to transcend that sense of shame and stigma identified with my being a Black gay man. Having come through the fire, they can't touch me.

Marlon Riggs

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Marlon Riggs

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