Activist Quote by Lynn Nottage

I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.

— Alicia Keys

I'm from San Diego. My parents weren't involved in theater, but my mother encouraged my interest in it. She bought me the cassette tape…

— Casey Nicholaw

The theater was my mother and my father.

— Ingrid Bergman

African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perrys career.…

— Lynn Nottage

Though the rampant racial injustices throughout the criminal justice system were offensive to me and to millions of other people, I've never drawn a…

— Van Jones

I think Mr. Cosby has always been very much an activist and a big proponent of African-American pride. That's how 'The Cosby Show' came…

— Keshia Knight Pulliam

... not all black women have silently acquiesced in sexism and misogyny within the African-American community. Indeed, many writers, activists, and other women have…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

I had been an activist on the issue of HIV, primarily in the African American and Latino communities here in the U.S. for many…

— Gloria Reuben

If you're looking at the people who head the institutions, there are very few African Americans or people of colour. I'm talking about the…

— Lynn Nottage

I am an African American public official operating in an environment dominated by Caucasians. That is not too dissimilar from what I had to…

— Mike Espy

If you take into account prisoners, a large majority of African American men in some urban areas, like Chicago, have been labeled felons for…

— Michelle Alexander

In 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to be nominated for and to win an Oscar. It was a step forward, even…

— Jonathan Capehart

The humanity that is given to other people isn't given to us. There is an expendability that comes along with being African American.

— Sterling K. Brown

For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion,…

— Tim Wise

I'm just trying to touch the world and touch the people and just get good material. And show them that we can get it…

— Cory Hardrict