Black Quote by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.

— Paul Mooney

The whole ridiculousness of black Hollywood - there is no black Hollywood. It's every man for himself.

— Janet Hubert

When you're black in Hollywood, you know, your first role is going to be on a crime drama. That's - everybody knows that.

— Terry Crews

It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact…

— Will Smith

I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.

— Whoopi Goldberg

The fact that there aren't an abundance of African-American males that are getting lead roles [and] that are getting roles that have prominence on…

— Michael B. Jordan

The whole Black Hollywood thing doesn't exist for me anymore. Once someone says that to themselves, they subject themselves to those rules.

— Omar Epps

There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a man.

— Ashton Sanders

Black people created their own stereotype. Now its hard for me to be a educated young black man without being labeled as 'acting white.'

— Anonymous

You know what? As a black person, you see so much racism. Films are no different than the government, politics - it's everywhere. It's…

— Elvis Mitchell

There's all kinds of depictions of black men. You have the Denzel Washingtons and the Will Smiths; that's wonderful, but that doesn't represent everyone.…

— Michael Jai White

Let's face it: there's still a certain amount of racism in human beings, so that shows up in Hollywood.

— James Gunn