Joseph L. Turner: Narrator

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Narrator : [voice-over]  'Black Love' is not an erotic sex film. It is rather a study of an important aspect of a black experience; the act of making love of two people physically and psychologically fulfilling basic human needs and desires. Through a significant extent, 'Black Love' is different from any other form of lovemaking because of a physical, sociological and psychological differences among black people. Some of these differences are real. Others are imagined. And some are based on myths, ignorance and fantasy. This is not a film about professional actors and actresses, nor does it involve professional sex performers. We have gone into the black community to interview and photograph a wide variety of ordinary black people, primarily married couples who were willing to participate in this scientific experiment.

• Narrator : [voice-over]  Black people learn about black love as children. Some learn by exchanging stories and bits of information with members of their peer groups. Others learn through trial and error with members of the opposite sex. But the most frequent way young black people learn about black love is by watching young black adults making love.

• Narrator : [voice-over]  The black man is a physical embodiment of masculine strength and beauty. The black woman is a symbolic mother of all down trodden people.

• [last lines] 

  Narrator : [voice-over]  'Black Love', as we have discovered and demonstrated, is the art of black men and black women making love physically and psychologically fulfilling their own and each others basic human needs and desires. 'Black Love' is black art, beauty, pride, joy and fulfillment.