Character Quote by Deon Cole

I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I…

— Barkhad Abdi

I dont see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I…

— Barkhad Abdi

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

— Tracey Ullman

I think it's a wonderful thing to have African-American characters. Look at life. It's not a white world or a black world; there are…

— Darius McCrary

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

I doubted Black-ish , and I'll tell you why. Because it doesn't matter if a writer wrote it for you. He could've written it…

— Tracee Ellis Ross

It's very rare that Black actors get an opportunity to do period pieces and to have a breadth of characters to choose from in…

— Malik Yoba

I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against…

— Gregory Hines

I've been asked far too often, 'Can you be blacker?' I've gotten done with auditions and heard, 'We're not going to go black with…

— Frankie Faison

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 have friends, African-American actors, who've had more of a struggle; hopefully they're starting to see some air and light now. But in my…

— Forest Whitaker

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