African american Quote by Darius McCrary

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

— Tracey Ullman

Unfortunately, in television today there are very few African-American characters who are human beings. They are typically two-dimensional stereotypes, cookie-cutter types.

— Andre Braugher

When my daughter was born, I was reading a lot of children's books, and there weren't any characters who looked like her. For all…

— Martellus Bennett

My goal is to broaden and deepen the range of African-American characters on television, so I always try to show human beings.

— Andre Braugher

Some people in America don't ever interact with black people outside of television, so we should give them real, believable characters.

— Mike Colter

Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad…

— J. C. Watts

There is an appetite for things that are different and a story with Black characters that's going to appeal to a lot of people.

— Cord Jefferson

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

There's this responsibility you feel to present a certain thing that kind of respectability politics. I think that became the only accepted way of…

— Rick Famuyiwa

I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need…

— J. C. Watts

I hope we can see African American characters as the diva, as the villain, and also as the praying mother. We are all of…

— Angela Robinson

The funny thing about cinema is, usually when they do a story that has African Americans in it, there always has to be a…

— Jim Brown