Always Quote by Jonathan Majors

The funny thing about cinema is, usually when they do a story that has African Americans in it, there always has to be a…

— Jim Brown

I think it's a wonderful thing to have African-American characters. Look at life. It's not a white world or a black world; there are…

— Darius McCrary

It's hard to find black roles that are just whimsical and fun and colorful. And I think, in many ways, that can be just…

— Amandla Stenberg

It's so important to create roles and characters and projects that feature black people in a way that's not specifically targeted towards the niche…

— Amandla Stenberg

Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is happening, something…

— Ava DuVernay

At some point, all black movies became biopics. All the good, serious ones became biopics. 'Ray,' 'Ali'... those types of movies, those are the…

— Martine Syms

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

— Tracey Ullman

I think that for the most part, black people specifically have sort of been used as props in TV shows as a way to…

— Lena Waithe

It's very rare that Black actors get an opportunity to do period pieces and to have a breadth of characters to choose from in…

— Malik Yoba

A lot of black actors will sit there and go, 'Every role is about being a gangster' - then they get an opportunity to…

— Ashley Walters

Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would be a…

— Mike Epps

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

— Tim Robbins