''I hate you Jody, I hate you! "
Baby Boy
Deena Jones
Dreamgirls
Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier appeared in a few 70's comedy-dramas about recovering a lottery ticket from a stolen wallet
Uptown Saturday Night
Who received the Oscar for best supporting after for An Officer and a Gentleman
Louis Gosset Jr
Best known for super sexy hits like Black Momma, White Momma, Foxy Brown and Coffy
Pam Grier
'I love you Shame'
A low down dirty Shame
Big Worm
Friday
Richard Roundtree gained worldwide recognition for his portrayal of this gritty, Black detective
Shaft
He played Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop
Eddie Murphy
This Grammy winner received an Academy Award nomination for Chicago
Queen Latifah
"Every time we get high, you start looking like sugar bear"
Set it Off
Frank Lucas
American Gangster
This 1988 parody of blaxploitation films was written and directed by Keenan Ivory Wayans
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
He was a faith healer in The Green Mile
Michael Clarke Duncan
She majored in theatre at the Baltimore School for the Arts and starred opposite Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor
Jada Pinkett Smith
"Love should have brought your a-- home last night"
Boomerang
Savannah Jackson
Waiting to Excel
Cornbread, Earl and Me featured a story about a star basketball player who
Was mistakenly shot and killed by the police
He played a driver to a rich old white women in Atlanta Georgia and they became best friends
Morgan Freeman
She played in this 1985 movie based on a Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Alice Walker |
Whoopi Goldberg
"We don't die, we (ugh) multiply"
Babe Kids
Leticia Musgrove
Monster Ball
This 1991 movie featured character "Nino Brown", a prominent drug leader in New York city
New Jack City
Played an ex con in a 1981 film about a group of special kids
Richard Pryor
This young actress snuggled with Nick Cannon in "Drumline"
Zoe Saldana