Black Quote by Niecy Nash

Black women come with all sorts of personalities. So it's time for media to wise up and show us in all of our complexity.

— Franchesca Ramsey

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

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

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

There's so many, 'no, black people aren't like that' barriers in mainstream media.

— Issa Rae

The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it's not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.

— Chadwick Boseman

The way Hollywood and TV is, black people don't have any choice but to see ourselves in white-dominated television shows and stories and movies.

— Justin Simien

White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's…

— Idris Elba

I get it - there are very few black female actresses who have been given chances.

— Nicole Byer

I think that if we really want to break it down, that non-black filmmakers have had many, many years and many, many opportunities to…

— Ava DuVernay

It's the same old story. Nothing in this world happens unless white folks says it happens. And therein lies the problem of being a…

— James McBride

Hollywood has had a very limited way of telling stories about black people.

— KiKi Layne