African american Quote by Jonathan Capehart

When Miss Williams was crowned Miss America in 1983, she opened the door for Black women around the world to achieve immeasurable dreams the…

— Kenya Moore

Never mind what you've heard. Halle Berry was not the first black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress. She was actually…

— Jeffrey Kluger

White boys always get the Oscar. It's a known fact. Did I ever get a nomination? No! You know why? Cause I hadn't played…

— Eddie Murphy

I did want to mark the fact that it was the first African-American to win the Lead Actress category.I thought it was so progressive.

— Viola Davis

If you think back , the Academy was doing a better job. Think about how many more African Americans were nominated.We need to get…

— George Clooney

I never thought about being the first black actor to win, even though everybody else talked about that. If I stop to think as…

— Omar Sy

Nelson Mandela had been freed and I had a feeling in my heart from God that a black would win. (Carole Gist, Miss USA…

— Carole Gist

We can never know... But maybe it's because no black actors merited being nominated.Why put people into categories?

— Charlotte Rampling

Black people have been qualified to be president for hundreds of years. George Washington Carver could have been president. I could go on with…

— Chris Rock

I always say it's hard to cast an African-American film sometimes because those kinds of actors just aren't out there.

— Rick Famuyiwa

If there weren't blacks, Jews and gays, there would no Oscars. Or anyone named Oscar, if you think about that.

— Ellen DeGeneres

I can safely say that no one who has ever won an Oscar didn't want to win an Oscar.

— Val Kilmer