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'The Cosby Show' was a show about black people that was fundamentally and unequivocally friendly to whiteness and to white people. The Huxtables had…

— Rebecca Traister

Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it…

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

'The Cosby Show' - no one thought there's doctors and lawyers who are married and live in brownstones! Back then no one would have…

— Keshia Knight Pulliam

Scores of African-Americans have written both appreciatively and critically about what 'The Cosby Show' meant to them over the years.

— Rebecca Traister

When 'The Cosby Show' came out, and everyone was up in arms about 'The Cosby Show' and that it was reflecting a world that…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

“Jenny-girl, you might say that the motto of the Black family is 'what's another brother?”

— Lilia Ford

I can't negate the theory that the Huxtables on 'The Cosby Show' may have helped pave the way for the Obama family. People enjoyed…

— Bill Cosby

“Black people are not the descendants of kings. We are—and I say this with big pride—the progeny of slaves. If there’s any majesty in…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

You could feel America starting to ease up a little bit on racism, against blacks in certain pockets, and then suddenly The Cosby Show…

— Adam McKay

I'm a big 'Cosby Show' fan.

— Frankie Ballard

There's a time when it was an event for a black person to be on television. Where black households would gather around, 'Oh, you…

— Sterling K. Brown

In 1965, Cosby had become the first black man ever to star in a prime-time television show; he was conscious enough of his non-dissolved,…

— Rebecca Traister