Abuse Quote by Ishmael Reed

“aggressive hypersexual African femininity. Such portrayals served both to exonerate White men of their inhuman rapes and to mask their human attractions to the…

— Ibram X. Kendi

The only person on the planet saying derogatory things about his woman is the black man.

— Dick Gregory

“What had happened was that the formal pattern of black-and-white, mistress-and-servant, had been broken by the personal relation; and when a white man in…

— Doris Lessing

It's called 'Dear White People,' but really, it's about these black characters and how they are involved or not involved in a racial scandal…

— Justin Simien

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

In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were…

— Christopher Darden

I was maybe one of two black kids in the drama department. It was, 'Well, you can't play this role because that guy has…

— Joe Morton

“But racism is most outrageously to the fore in ‘Ashraf and Anjab’, in which the sadistically villainous Anjab is described by Harun al-Rashid as…

— Malcolm C. Lyons

“The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught…

— Maya Angelou

I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against…

— Gregory Hines

There were not a lot of roles for a black man like myself that were different. Then 'Top Boy' came. I read the script…

— Ashley Walters

The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.

— Armond White