Black Quote by Janet Hubert

What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.

— Paul Mooney

The whole Black Hollywood thing doesn't exist for me anymore. Once someone says that to themselves, they subject themselves to those rules.

— Omar Epps

It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact…

— Will Smith

I think that Hollywood is content with condescending to Black people, patronizing them, feeling sorry for us, and I think we're happy to take…

— Harry Lennix

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

There's all kinds of depictions of black men. You have the Denzel Washingtons and the Will Smiths; that's wonderful, but that doesn't represent everyone.…

— Michael Jai White

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

We're all complaining about diversity in Hollywood, but we've got to address the colorism within the black community of Hollywood first.

— Janet Hubert

There are still plenty of movie people peddling black stereotypes. I guess Tyler Perry's probably the most massively successful.

— Paul Mooney

I see that they put every black man in the movies in a dress at some point in his career.

— Dave Chappelle

I ask everyone - white Hollywood and black Hollywood - to get outside of your comfort zone and make friends. That's where they're going…

— Russell Simmons

Hollywood is hard on everyone, but it really is harder on women and people of color.

— Nell Scovell