Black Quote by Linda Johnson Rice

Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

— Bernie Mac

I couldn't bare the idea of not being in regular communication with the audience I love - young women of color.

— Michaela Angela Davis

There's a dearth of media around young black women and certainly a dearth of LGBT media for people of color.

— Dee Rees

Black women come with all sorts of personalities. So it's time for media to wise up and show us in all of our complexity.

— Franchesca Ramsey

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

It's great to know that young black girls are seeing themselves on TV as leading ladies, and I'm part of that. It's just such…

— Candice Patton

That's what this industry is all about - supporting artists and supporting storytellers and hearing the audience for what they want and need. There…

— Mara Brock Akil

As much as you turn on the television and see our beautiful faces, you'd be amazed to see who is not behind the camera.…

— Eva Marcille

It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.

— Alvin Ailey

I'm absolutely certain that audiences want to see older women on their TVs.

— Sarah Lancashire

I've had frank conversations with theaters who say, 'We love your play, but we've already done a play by another black person this year,'…

— Katori Hall

People are getting tired of the same material; they want to see black girls as leads in movies. And I happen to be lucky…

— Amandla Stenberg