Grateful Quote by Priyanka Chopra

“In high school, I developed a new love: acting. I went to a predominantly black and Latino school in Compton and, outside of television,…

— Issa Rae

“As a person of color in America, you need to fly to reach the hallowed gates of wealth and mainstream success while others can…

— Wajahat Ali

I decided to try to make a show of my own where I could invite an audience to obsess about race the way I…

— Steven C. Harper

We're all complaining about diversity in Hollywood, but we've got to address the colorism within the black community of Hollywood first.

— Janet Hubert

The number of Latino roles is very limited, and it's unfortunate there isn't more color-blind casting.

— Jai Rodriguez

We would like to get to a point in our society where people really are colorblind and this message would not have to be…

— Harry Connick, Jr

I have never made a decision based on race and never will. I am admiring of my fellow peers, black film-makers and black actors…

— Cuba Gooding Jr

I am half Puerto Rican, a quarter German and a quarter black. That was always a big issue for me - being mixed race…

— Naya Rivera

“I’d love to be a color commentator, but I can’t, because I’m white, and white isn’t a color.”

— Jarod Kintz

With my representation of a black woman in the world today, there's such a powerful response from my community about what it means to…

— Susan Kelechi Watson

Race is a core reality of American experience. Media images on television need to reflect that reality to help people who consume media and…

— Darnell M. Hunt

“In sum, restoring notions of race mixture to center stage recommits us, willy-nilly, to the discredited idea of racial purity, the basic premise of…

— Barbara J. Fields