Black Quote by Marc Lamont Hill

Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people.

— Ava DuVernay

Not that long ago - in my parents' lives, in fact - actors in minstrel shows wore blackface to mimic and mock African Americans.…

— Wayne Messam

If you look at pop culture as the main picture you see of black men, all these kind of threatening pictures and - I…

— Trip Lee

I think black people have to be in control of their own image because film is a powerful medium. We can't just sit back…

— Spike Lee

There is a systematic effort to destroy every black male entertainer's image. They want us all to have an asterisk by our name.

— Eddie Griffin

I think, a lot of times, the image that black women have in the media is quite negative.

— Selah Louise Marley

I was responsible for having a clean image. I wanted people to have respect for black people.

— Leslie Uggams

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

If you see black people being portrayed in this one way well then, when you see a black person in real life, you're going…

— KiKi Layne

There weren't many black players when I was growing up, and I remember playing and looking up to the ones that were playing.

— Jarome Iginla

History has proven that art depicting black people cannot be disentangled from the political implications that such art has on their lives. As Africans…

— Clint Smith

There are more than 100 million African women who go topless at some point in the day, each and every day, to honor both…

— Kola Boof