Black Quote by Dane DeHaan

The first role that I got on Broadway was supposedly for a white man. But I had some producers who fought for me and…

— Tituss Burgess

It was jarring to be berated for 'acting white' when I was placed in a predominantly black middle school in Southern California. I was…

— Issa Rae

When a musical act performs, the black audience goes crazy for all the stuff, the album cuts, everything. White audiences, they're nice and all,…

— Chris Rock

If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage of our…

— Howard Schultz

My school was 90 percent white, but 90 percent of the kids I played with were black. So I got the best of both…

— Will Smith

To see a musical with mostly black actors, even at 10 I knew that was special.

— Leslie Uggams

I think I am the first person of color to direct a major white play on Broadway. In 1993? That's astounding to me. And…

— George C. Wolfe

I was the only one at stage school who wasn't white.

— Leona Lewis

Lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. Lot of non-white actors ain't all that great.

— Wesley Snipes

American musicals are, for the most part, about boys, or boyish pursuits and aspirations - the fantasy of freedom and resolve - and those…

— Hilton Als

One of the things about being a minority actor is that you don't have that opportunity as some of your counterparts to keep that…

— Georg Stanford Brown

I always say it's hard to cast an African-American film sometimes because those kinds of actors just aren't out there.

— Rick Famuyiwa