Acting Quote by Paul Robeson

“The best portrait of this psychology comes from that very dead, very white European male: William Shakespeare, in his Othello. Iago just hated Othello,…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

I was reluctant to play Othello. It seemed like such a 'black actor' cliche, but when I finally did, in my 40s, I related…

— Paterson Joseph

If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the black man…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shakespeare must be a black girl.

— Maya Angelou

My father used to act in high school. He was in a production of 'Othello;' I don't know who he played, but it wasn't…

— Lupita Nyong'o

“I once sat down on a bench at Cape Town railway station where the notice "Whites Only" was obscured. A few moments later a…

— Bessie Head

The Negro who experiences bitter and agonizing circumstances as a result of some ungodly white person is tempted to look upon all white persons…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Iago is one of the most liked characters in Shakespeare's canon, and he's the most evil, most extraordinarily manipulative person in history. He says…

— Kelsey Grammer

The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their…

— Daniel Hannan

There was all this talk when Obama got elected about how we were living in a postracial world. But we're not. Until we get…

— David Henry Hwang

“He was young, no older than fifteen, pale and dark-haired, wearing jeans and a soft white T-shirt that had SHAKESPEARE HATES YOUR EMO POEMS…

— Marjorie M. Liu

“Coleridge’s description of Iago’s actions as "motiveless malignancy" applies in some degree to all the Shakespearian villains. The adjective motiveless means, firstly, that the…

— W.H. Auden