Destroy Quote by Eddie Griffin

In the press, there's this desire for the black audience to be this monolithic thing that always responds to the same stars. That's a…

— Justin Simien

If you look at pop culture as the main picture you see of black men, all these kind of threatening pictures and - I…

— Trip Lee

#BlackLivesMatter brought a new sense of urgency, audacity, and outrage to the issue of police violence against black men that has made it impossible…

— Danny K. Davis

My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow…

— Mark McMorris

The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has…

— Sidney Poitier

Think about how much fashion profits from black culture and how underrepresented we are in the industry. If you insist on using black celebrities…

— Kerby Jean-Raymond

As much as people try to pit black entertainers against one another, because of the underlying feeling that there can't be two of us,…

— David Banner

It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.

— Alvin Ailey

Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.

— Marc Lamont Hill

Black artists are encouraged to explore their identity but are then pigeonholed according to their ethnicity. We may have seen the decline of old…

— Munira Mirza

There are a lot of black men doing really well, taking care of their families, taking care of their wives, being successful, doing the…

— Thomas Jones

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