Acting Quote by Mike Epps

Mainstream media has convinced people that black people aren't relatable. So when a Jewish person comes up to me and is all, 'Oh man,…

— Issa Rae

It's hard to find black roles that are just whimsical and fun and colorful. And I think, in many ways, that can be just…

— Amandla Stenberg

There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black…

— Anonymous

The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has…

— Sidney Poitier

A lot of the time, you see all this ambition from these black actors, and it's just pouring off the screen. Because they don't…

— Elvis Mitchell

If you're going to make black movies only about black people, that's as bad as white movies only about white people.

— Rita Moreno

It's so important to create roles and characters and projects that feature black people in a way that's not specifically targeted towards the niche…

— Amandla Stenberg

A lot of black actors will sit there and go, 'Every role is about being a gangster' - then they get an opportunity to…

— Ashley Walters

I personally don't enjoy films that bring black people down. I find that a majority of the films that black people are starred in…

— Drake

I had talked to my agent a lot over the years about not being interested in stereotypical "black films" [because] I didn't like the…

— Zoe Kravitz

Any time you have people of different races in a movie that's about America, there's going to be a racial component.

— John Lee Hancock

If I or any other black can deliver at the box office, I'll get a lot of work. Too many young actors, regardless of…

— Mario Van Peebles