Black Quote by Chadwick Boseman

I'm the only tenured black faculty in the sciences at Columbia, in the middle of Harlem.

— Carl Hart

I had studied at the NYU School of the Arts under Lloyd Richards, who also worked with the Negro Ensemble Company.

— Bill Duke

I did most of my Ph.D. in Washington. They used to bring black kids through the lab for tours, and I was one of…

— Carl Hart

I went to a historically black college.

— John David Washington

I majored in art history. But I took theater classes, and every semester I was in college productions.

— Lucy DeVito

I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go…

— Tom Rachman

We're the curator for the African-American experience for the past, present and future. That's my job.

— Linda Johnson Rice

I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and…

— Billy Crystal

I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.

— Wilbur Smith

I started at Howard in the drama department. At the same time, I was a fledgling member of the Black Repertory Company in Washington,…

— Lynn Whitfield

My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

— Orson Scott Card