African american Quote by Lance Reddick Download Open image “The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.” — Lance Reddick ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare African american American Community Entertainment Entertainment industry Industry
There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports. — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
They think America is like a major league in entertainment. For me personally being here for the past year-and-a-half, I know some of the… — Aml Ameen Copy Share Image
As blacks, all we got is sports and entertainment. That's the only way out the hood sometimes. — Trey Songz Copy Share Image
I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
To me, entertainment is really the new plantation. It's the new sugar, the new cotton, that black people work for somebody else to be… — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in television today there are very few African-American characters who are human beings. They are typically two-dimensional stereotypes, cookie-cutter types. — Andre Braugher Copy Share Image
Like anyone else in television, I like to explore my life experience. And I don't think African-American artists see doing shows or art about… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed. — Lynn Swann Copy Share Image
When we were doing shows in the mid-'90s, the audiences were 95% black. What's happened now is the gentrification of hip-hop. A lot of… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry. — Dionne Warwick Copy Share Image
I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff. — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
That's what David Caruso said to me. We were talking about the whole Emmy thing, and he said that one of the things about… — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
A very odd thing happened to my career when I got The Wire. My career was pretty much a steady climb; I didn't really… — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
Most of the characters I'd played were so different from me, so far from me that I had to transform. — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality. — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right. — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully. — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
I started to realize, a lot of times if you go into your memory, your sense memory, you know more than you think you… — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right. If they have a preconceived notion about… — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
I feel like my public life isn't necessarily my own. I'm starting to get used to how to maneuver and operate in New York… — Lance Reddick Copy Share Image
This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life. — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“This popularity extended to Trump himself, who, according to private demographic research conducted at the time, was even more popular with African American and… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I know I'm more forgiving than most African Americans when it comes to second chances for White people who not only commit a racial… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here… — Ken Mehlman Copy Share Image
It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default. — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate… — Richard Allen Copy Share Image
It may be changing, but still it's the one place, that total control of an institution, that African Americans have. So sometimes, you know,… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
