Black Quote by Quincy Jones

At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment.…

— Henry Flynt

I saw the general-market world, the white world. I felt that it was my mission to see to it that black talent had an…

— Don Cornelius

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 imagine it was much different in the 1970s. That was the Renaissance for black actors, albeit in blaxploitation movies. There was a much…

— Don Cheadle

Back in the 1970s, it was mostly all-black audiences coming into the theaters. So, we presented stories they could relate to.

— Rudy Ray Moore

It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.

— Dionne Warwick

Although the civil-rights movement did a lot to change how black life was dramatized on the American stage in the fifties and sixties, white…

— Hilton Als

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

— Lance Reddick

I suppose it was later on that I realized that there was some reaction among the musicians themselves, some of whom resented the success…

— Ashley Kahn

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

It's hard to describe how bloody awful music was, how desperately bad it was, how our 1960s heroes had become boring and useless. Not…

— Tony Wilson

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