America Quote by Henry Louis Gates

Back in the 1970s, it was mostly all-black audiences coming into the theaters. So, we presented stories they could relate to.

— Rudy Ray Moore

In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and…

— Natasha Trethewey

I went to a public high school and most of the comedy was coming from the black kids and the Asian kids and the…

— Brett Ratner

Up until the middle to late '60s, it was a choice to film in black-and-white or color. But then television became so vital to…

— John Boorman

I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on…

— Ice Cube

As a child, I experienced black culture as many people did in America: on the TV, radio, and stages.

— Shawn Amos

Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four…

— Big Sean

I vividly remember segregation - separate schools, sitting in the balcony at the movie theater, being barred from the public swimming pool.

— David Steward

I was the first black man on television.

— Scatman Crothers

The sum total of what I learned about African American culture in school was Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Underground Railroad.…

— Ashley Graham

My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into…

— Bryan Stevenson

Once my school was integrated, and I was there with white kids and a few black kids, it really didn't matter to us what…

— Ruby Bridges