Black Quote by Camille A. Brown

Acting is different from dance. The black-and-whiteness of dancing is mostly about the technical form - like, this is how people have been doing…

— Elle Fanning

I feel an obligation to use black dancers because there must be more opportunities for them, but not because I'm a black choreographer talking…

— Alvin Ailey

When I was coming up, we didn't have the movement of Black Girl Magic or Black Girls Rock, but my parents made it their…

— Naturi Naughton

I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

— August Wilson

You cannot help but watch ballet dancers like Precious Adams without realizing that a classical ballerina can be black. However, talking about this isn't…

— Michaela DePrince

Going on stage and transcending the audience and becoming this otherworldly thing makes you a dancer. It's not so black and white.

— Misty Copeland

I'm still trying to change the way people see black dancers that we can become delicate dancers, that we can be a ballerina,

— Michaela DePrince

So many dancers feel that what they look like is more important than who they are. This is a real danger for dancers who…

— Alonzo King

There’s something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It’s a different perspective. It is a reflection…

— Ava DuVernay

Frankly, I think that's something that black people in America have often done - finding ways under very, very difficult circumstances to be subversive,…

— Andre Holland

Black women are some of the most colorful women in the world. We come in all shadeshave so many hair textures..eye colors..body types. In…

— Skye Townsend

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