Black Quote by Dick Gregory

I didn't realize, when I decided to be a comic, that a black person had never been allowed to stand flat-footed in America and…

— Dick Gregory

I'd say a lot of black comics were forced to do the black comedy circuit. I'd go into black comedy clubs and see what…

— Sinbad

Tripping business started in Africa. Long time ago, long long time ago, white man went to Africa. And he saw all these bootiful black…

— The Players Club

They [the blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.

— Roger Brooke Taney

The deals that were made for Black artists at that time were not the deals that were made for white artists.

— Solomon Burke

If comics are modern mythology, then black participation and representation is crucial.

— Reginald Hudlin

There wasn't much white people would allow us to do in those days. You could be a schoolteacher or an athlete to get away…

— Hank Aaron

The vogue of the New Negro . . . had all of the character of a public relations promotion. The Negro had to be…

— Nathan Huggins

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

— Quincy Jones

“THEY WERE PEOPLE who went in for Negroes—Michael and Anne—the Carraways. But not in the social-service, philanthropic sort of way, no. They saw no…

— Langston Hughes

A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports…

— Malcolm X

My whole intention is to break down these limitations of what a black comedian is supposed to be and to open up a space.

— Amanda Seales