belle – LemonGrenade

Endless list of beautiful period dramas:
↳ Belle (2013)

_{“The movie establishes that there are no white saviours there to make things better. Belle is forced to do that for herself, and it’s her journey in educating herself and trying to convince her chief justice uncle to vote against the legality of the slave trade that makes the film more fascinating than most films in this genre.” — Zeba Blay, TIFF 2013 Review on Belle.}

ninetieslasher:

“My greatest misfortune would be to marry into a family who would carry me as their shame.” – Belle (2013)

_{Belle (2014) dir. Amma Asante}

natashabucks:

My greatest misfortune would be to marry into a family who would carry me as their shame. As I have been required to carry my own mother, her apparent crime to be born Negro and mine to be the evidence. Since I wish to deny her no more than I wish to deny myself you will pardon me for wanting a husband who feels forgiveness of my bloodline is both unnecessary and without grace.

ninetieslasher:

I remember my father’s eyes. They were kind, gentle. A little like yours.

wednesdaydreams:

_{“We women are but the property of gentlemen”. It came into my head that I have been blessed with freedom twice over. As a negro and as a woman. Or have I? Must not a lady marry even if she is financially secure? Or who is she without a husband of consequence? It seems silly…}

_{Belle (2014), Amma Asante}

delevingned-deactivated20151023:

_{How can I be too high of rank to dine with the servants, but too low of rank to dine with my own family?}