Acting Quote by Michael Salu

A white person listens to my act and he laughs and he thinks, 'Yeah, that's the way I see it too.' Okay. He's white.…

— Bill Cosby

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

If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk. If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.

— Bill Cosby

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can…

— Nat King Cole

To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend…

— Jesse Helms

I have a theory. An audience doesn't need to get wrapped up in blackness every time they see a Negro actor. And a movie…

— Jim Brown

One of the things about being a minority actor is that you don't have that opportunity as some of your counterparts to keep that…

— Georg Stanford Brown

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

If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage of our…

— Howard Schultz

The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house.

— Malcolm X

In the press, there's this desire for the black audience to be this monolithic thing that always responds to the same stars. That's a…

— Justin Simien

It's called 'Dear White People,' but really, it's about these black characters and how they are involved or not involved in a racial scandal…

— Justin Simien