Black Quote by Bill Maher

Remember, MTV would only show white videos for a long time. Can you imagine that? That was the '80s when that happened. It's hard…

— Larry Wilmore

Black kids wishin they white kids when they close they eyelids, Like, 'I bet they neighborhood ain't like this'. White kids wishin they black…

— Talib Kweli

The way Hollywood and TV is, black people don't have any choice but to see ourselves in white-dominated television shows and stories and movies.

— Justin Simien

I think there's a certain stigma that comes with being a white rapper and having a show.

— Mike Stud

There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV.

— David Bowie

When I was growing up, white people made fun of me. So it was always strange to me as I would gain prominence in…

— Paul Wall

Whiteness is not a culture . . . Whiteness has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with social position . .…

— Noel Ignatiev

We're very used to seeing a huge diversity of white people. You never just expect two white people on TV to feel the same…

— Daveed Diggs

“racism is about the power of a group and in America it’s white folks who have that power. How? Well, white folks don’t get…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

It's not just a struggle for blacks to be accepted by whites, but the other way around as well. A lot of people don't…

— Q-Tip

I think that for the most part, black people specifically have sort of been used as props in TV shows as a way to…

— Lena Waithe

These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. In the…

— Sara Paretsky