Alpha Quote by Michael Jai White

In fashion, there's a lack of strong male images. And there's a huge lack of strong African American images. I noticed over the past…

— Tyson Beckford

I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get…

— Samuel L. Jackson

They all looked like a shampoo commercial, healthy and clear-skinned, perfectly proportioned, a group of handsome young men. Their clothes hung on them like…

— Lilith Saintcrow

I want young people to look at me and go, 'Damn, I want to be like that brother. He sharp, he be on point.…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I don't want to be self-mythologizing, but I do feel like, growing up, on TV, there weren't a lot of young Black women who…

— Ayo Edebiri

For a long time, images of black men with big lips and a round head were used to make us feel inferior, but it…

— John Barnes

When I was young, I loved black men.

— Jessica Alba

I was the first black man on television.

— Scatman Crothers

“Before moving to America, I did not see the world through a "Black" lens...We had doctors, teachers, wealthy men. Indeed, we had successful men…

— Sun Yung Shin

“Who were these people, all of them young couples, a few fabulous ones, tall thin-haired blondes with toned men in perfectly pressed jeans --…

— Dave Eggers

That's the trouble with, I think, my - the contemporary read of my work. So many people just simply say, "These are pretty pictures…

— Kehinde Wiley

There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.

— Kehinde Wiley