Basketball Quote by Charles Barkley

There's a time when it was an event for a black person to be on television. Where black households would gather around, 'Oh, you…

— Sterling K. Brown

In the end we're all Jerry Springer Show guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.

— Marilyn Manson

I couldn't do my show without spending 12 years on the streets of Humboldt Park. It made me a better interrogator. Still, if they…

— Steve Wilkos

A show hosted by a black had never been accepted, so the first time that knob's turned on, people are judging against all they…

— Flip Wilson

It's funny that black men, at first, were worried about a show called 'Girlfriends' because they thought that black men were gonna get bashed.…

— Mara Brock Akil

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.

— Charles Barkley

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

I'm trying to use euphemisms here, trying to avoid saying there was no television for black folks, which they knew was for them.

— Don Cornelius

I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain 'what's up…

— John Ridley

“In the end we're all Jerry Springer guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.”

— Marilyn Manson

You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had…

— Henry Louis Gates

I wish there was more for minorities than sitcoms. I'd like to see a soap opera about blacks. People don't live in isolation anymore.

— Roxie Roker