Black Quote by Bill Cosby

'The Cosby Show' was a show about black people that was fundamentally and unequivocally friendly to whiteness and to white people. The Huxtables had…

— Rebecca Traister

Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

The Huxtables laughed and bonded and debated and lip-synced. They were glamorous and simple and extraordinarily human. And affluent. And educated. And so many…

— Wesley Morris

I think one of the greatest advantages we had on the show growing up was being exposed to Mr. Cosby - being exposed to…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show…

— Adam McKay

I couldn't have known how vertiginous the entire Huxtable project was. I was, like, 10, 13, 15 years old when the show was a…

— Wesley Morris

I don't necessarily believe that 'The Cosby Show' should disappear as a cultural reference, but it is. That's sad to me. I understand why.…

— Kenya Barris

I do think it's important for black writers to show that we too can make it into the mainstream. Growing up, I didn't just…

— Lena Waithe

You know what Bill Cosby did wrong? He started criticizing young black men.

— Damon Wayans

'The Cosby Show' - no one thought there's doctors and lawyers who are married and live in brownstones! Back then no one would have…

— Keshia Knight Pulliam

Scores of African-Americans have written both appreciatively and critically about what 'The Cosby Show' meant to them over the years.

— Rebecca Traister

Interestingly enough, I feel what the show [OJ Simpson] was able to accomplish in a really masterful way is that White America could look…

— Sterling K. Brown