Black people Quote by Daryl Davis

The Circle Theatre, black people had to sit in the balcony. Any theater with a balcony, black people had to sit up there. Black…

— Kurt Vonnegut

When we were doing shows in the mid-'90s, the audiences were 95% black. What's happened now is the gentrification of hip-hop. A lot of…

— Boots Riley

Like the Negro League players, I traveled through the segregated south as a young man. Because I was black, I was denied service at…

— Walter Dean Myers

Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some state in…

— Isabel Wilkerson

I feel like there's not this black-and-white division between concert hall music and music that bands play in a bar. I don't know if…

— Missy Mazzoli

“In a word, a concert hall is a place where middle-class white people can feel safe together.”

— Christopher Small

Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go…

— Archie Shepp

As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on…

— Kelis

Playing rock 'n' roll music, it's going to be integrated, but being black you didn't want to go into some neighborhood where you weren't…

— Gail Ann Dorsey

When I was in school, I conceptually didn't want black people to have context, to take it out of all that history. I wanted…

— Toyin Odutola

If you're looking at the people who head the institutions, there are very few African Americans or people of colour. I'm talking about the…

— Lynn Nottage

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you…

— Dick Gregory