Black Quote by Miles Davis

White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain't got nothing to gain and…

— Billy Gibbons

People will go for anything they don't understand if it's got enough hype.

— Miles Davis

When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don't know if it's my low expectations…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

A lot of white men in the music industry are promoting and participating in black culture in a way that is pretty careless. They…

— Kelela

To me the industry has always said that the lovers and haters and principal characters will always be white in Hollywood, and black people…

— Haile Gerima

White people will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved…

— James A. Baldwin

There is a terrific apprehension among some people that blacks will take over the sport... It will create problems because their behavior, speech and…

— Arthur Ashe

Obviously, race is the elephant in the room, and we all understand that. Unless it is talked about constantly, it's not going to get…

— Stan Van Gundy

When we were doing shows in the mid-'90s, the audiences were 95% black. What's happened now is the gentrification of hip-hop. A lot of…

— Boots Riley

I'm hoping that somehow with songs like 'American Gold' there will be some kind of justice, and people just stop being so close-minded to…

— Tionne Watkins

People are getting tired of the same material; they want to see black girls as leads in movies. And I happen to be lucky…

— Amandla Stenberg

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