Black Quote by Dorian Corey

I don't want to be self-mythologizing, but I do feel like, growing up, on TV, there weren't a lot of young Black women who…

— Ayo Edebiri

It's people who look like me, just seeing representation of everyone. I didn't get that when I was young. I only saw one black…

— Marsai Martin

Whoopi Goldberg looked like me, she had hair like mine, she was dark like me. I'd been starved for images of myself. I'd grown…

— Lupita Nyong'o

Growing up biracial, I didn't have someone to look up to watching TV or movies. Halle Berry was the closest one who looked like…

— Vanessa Morgan

I grew up watching old black and white movies where Marlene Dietrich or Jean Harlow would go walking down some cobblestone street in ripped…

— Ellen Greene

Rather than emulate the girls I grew up with who made fun of me, I decided I wanted to look like a movie star.…

— Amanda Lepore

Growing up, I remember watching TV, and I didn't see a lot of people who looked like me, especially someone who passed as a…

— Hannah Simone

There's a lot of Black women on TV in the media and I feel like we look different, but we also still look like…

— Ayo Edebiri

My aunt looked like Lucille Ball, and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never…

— Sandra Lerner

When I was in high school in America, I didn't see anyone who looked like me - hardly ever. I just thought that was…

— Priyanka Chopra

Marlene Dietrich for the way there was something so unique about her - the way she entered into a frame and everybody looks at…

— Berenice Bejo

I've always refused to buy into the idea that I should look a certain way. People say I don't conform to the idea of…

— Caroline Quentin