African american Quote by Mahershala Ali

I'm black and white, so either, sometimes, you're not considered by the breakdown of the script: you're not 'black enough' for this role. Or…

— Vanessa Morgan

I don't walk around all the time thinking of myself as African American, but oftentimes in Hollywood, you are reminded of that in ways…

— Salim Akil

I've been asked far too often, 'Can you be blacker?' I've gotten done with auditions and heard, 'We're not going to go black with…

— Frankie Faison

I don't see myself as a 'black actor,' I'm just Shemar Moore the actor. I'm very proud to be black, but I'm just as…

— Shemar Moore

The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.

— Neneh Cherry

In general, the auditions I go up for are very sparse, I guess because of my ethnicity. And the characters are very similar: shy,…

— Katie Leung

I only became an actor to get your attention, to challenge the archetype of an African American male; I can't be anything else in…

— Isaiah Washington

I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my…

— Frantz Fanon

“I realize I'm black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybody's wish.”

— Michael Jordan

You have to understand being an actress, and being an African American actress of a certain hue, I think that you have to be…

— Viola Davis

[Educated blacks] Society refuses to consider them genuine Negroes. The Negro is a savage, whereas the student is civilized. "You're us," and if anyone…

— Frantz Fanon

When people meet me in person, they're usually surprised at how petite I am because there's this idea that because I'm black, I just…

— Misty Copeland