Black Quote by Ava DuVernay

I was responsible for having a clean image. I wanted people to have respect for black people.

— Leslie Uggams

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

There's a lot of black history - my history - that I don't know about.

— Alison Hammond

When I started, black people were either victims or they were the perpetrators; they were the boogie men who jumped out of the bushes…

— Joe Morton

Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.

— Marc Lamont Hill

There is a perception within our community and the world that black people don't love each other. That we don't fight for each other.…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person,

— Phil Robertson

I do consider myself part of black history.

— Mary J. Blige

To me, to neuter a photograph of person of color in some general sense is to continue to forget the complexity of the black…

— RaMell Ross

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.

— Trisha Goddard

There were no black images of dignity, no images of beautiful black people. There was this big hole. I tried to fill it.

— Roy DeCarava

If you see black people being portrayed in this one way well then, when you see a black person in real life, you're going…

— KiKi Layne