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We only put the negative black people on television. We don't put the good, hard-working black people.

— Charles Barkley

Black people watch more television than anybody else, which makes it legitimate to talk about television. Its anesthetizing effect has been quite real. But…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I don't see why black should be a negative and it's not negative. The people perpetrating that particular thought are wrong.

— John Barnes

It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.

— Thomas Sowell

It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you're associating with black people.

— Donald Sterling

I can tell you from personal experience it gets a little tiring having to make the rounds on cable shows to explain 'what's up…

— John Ridley

As blacks, all we got is sports and entertainment. That's the only way out the hood sometimes.

— Trey Songz

I think that for the most part, black people specifically have sort of been used as props in TV shows as a way to…

— Lena Waithe

The way Hollywood and TV is, black people don't have any choice but to see ourselves in white-dominated television shows and stories and movies.

— Justin Simien

I'm trying to use euphemisms here, trying to avoid saying there was no television for black folks, which they knew was for them.

— Don Cornelius

I disagree with the prevailing point of view of some black leaders that special treatment for blacks is acceptable.

— Clarence Thomas

I am tired of people telling me that black people are beneath a standard when we have to be twice as good all the…

— Angela Rye