Black Quote by Octavia Spencer

I felt Helen Willis was in tune with the situation of a black woman married to a white man, and she had no problem…

— Roxie Roker

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

I think, a lot of times, the image that black women have in the media is quite negative.

— Selah Louise Marley

Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made…

— Cicely Tyson

The black woman as a concept has an identity largely based on archaic tropes. This same woman as reality, however, exists at the unfortunate…

— Jerrika Hinton

It has been very rare to see a black woman as a protagonist. And also as three-dimensional people - mathematicians, mothers, wives, complicated people,…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema…

— Spike Lee

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

There have been countless Black women who have been unfortunately mistreated, blackballed, looked over.

— Quinta Brunson

“I believe it’s incredibly important to write against [racial] stereotypes. If we give in and make sure that all black women characters are asexual,…

— Justine Larbalestier

Black women do not have as many positive images in the media as we should.

— Chirlane McCray

Growing up, I didn't receive the representation that I wanted so badly. I was always looking out for black characters - black women -…

— Amandla Stenberg