Samara Lynn: Family of Black Man, Don Shirley, Portrayed in „The Green Book“ Blasts Movie and Its „Lies“. In: Black Enterprise. 28. November 2018, abgerufen am 25. Januar 2019 (englisch): „My brother never considered Tony to be his „friend“; he was an employee, his chauffeur (who resented wearing a uniform and cap). This is why context and nuance are so important. The fact that a successful, well-to-do Black artist would employ domestics that did NOT look like him, should not be lost in translation.“
Bruce Weber: Donald Shirley, a Pianist With His Own Genre, Dies at 86. In: The New York Times. 29. April 2013, ISSN0362-4331 (nytimes.com [abgerufen am 23. Oktober 2021]).
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Brooke C. Obie: How 'Green Book' And The Hollywood Machine Swallowed Donald Shirley Whole. In: Shadow And Act. 14. Dezember 2018, abgerufen am 27. Februar 2019 (englisch): „“I remember very, very clearly, going back 30 years, my uncle had been approached by Nick Vallelonga, the son of Tony Vallelonga, about a movie on his life, and Uncle Donald told me about it,” Edwin said. “He flatly refused.” Edwin recalled that he even tried to talk his uncle into considering it. “I remember suggesting to him that it might be a good idea, ‘You can be involved [with the making of the film],’ and he just flatly said, ‘No, absolutely not. I don’t want to have any part of that,’” Edwin said, adding: “And so, I said to him at the time, ‘Well, perhaps you can set some conditions whereby you can be involved if they agree to certain things in terms of control for you,’ and what he said at the time was, ‘No matter what they say to me now, I will not have any control over how I am portrayed.’” “God knows, this is the reason that he never wanted to have his life portrayed on screen,” Edwin said. “I now understand why, and I feel terrible that I was actually trying to urge him to do this in the 1980s, because everything that he objected to back then has come true now.”“
Bruce Weber: Donald Shirley, a Pianist With His Own Genre, Dies at 86. In: The New York Times. 29. April 2013, ISSN0362-4331 (nytimes.com [abgerufen am 23. Oktober 2021]).
