Audience Quote by Cecile McLorin Salvant

Not that long ago - in my parents' lives, in fact - actors in minstrel shows wore blackface to mimic and mock African Americans.…

— Wayne Messam

Just reading that - just reading that a person can be black and still perform in blackface, making fun of black people for a…

— Cecile McLorin Salvant

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

Black people's music is in a class by itself and always has been. There's nothing like it. The reason for that is because it…

— Toni Morrison

Blackface remains exoticist and offensive as a practice, not just because of its long tradition of being used to mock black selfhood, sexuality, and…

— Kevin Young

Before many black singers were still labouring under that problem of God; it was often 'God will save us'. But right through the blacks…

— John Lennon

Although the civil-rights movement did a lot to change how black life was dramatized on the American stage in the fifties and sixties, white…

— Hilton Als

I'm admitting that I don't know that to be true, but it does sound pretty good. So a big part of my childhood was…

— Moshe Kasher

It's funny because I went to a predominantly white school, but for some reason they always picked the musicals that were supposed to be…

— Dane DeHaan

I think it's good that YouTube decided that they really want to showcase Black talent.

— Brent Faiyaz

I saw the general-market world, the white world. I felt that it was my mission to see to it that black talent had an…

— Don Cornelius

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

— Dick Gregory