Appeal Quote by Ralphie May

I've played every comedy club and every theatre across the country for the last 25 years and seen a lot of audience members from…

— Lisa Lampanelli

In all my years in show business - on stage, clubs and TV shows - my audience has been 75 percent white. In Las…

— Nipsey Russell

During all the years I entertained at the Baby Grand night club in Harlem, 90 percent of the audience was white. But when I…

— Nipsey Russell

There is a linear way in which black comedians are expected to talk about race by all audiences - black people are like this,…

— W. Kamau Bell

When I was studying comedy in Chicago, it wasn't long after 9/11. There were a lot Middle Eastern comedians who were doing bits about…

— Kumail Nanjiani

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

— Anonymous

I'm this generic, ambiguous scapegoat for white people to call me a race traitor and take out their hostility on. And I'm a target…

— Rachel Dolezal

I've been seesawing between not doing too much racial stuff - because I'd rather be known as the funny comedian than the funny Chinese…

— Ronny Chieng

It was jarring to be berated for 'acting white' when I was placed in a predominantly black middle school in Southern California. I was…

— Issa Rae

You don't get white comedians being asked to talk about their race in their shows. I should be given the same agency to talk…

— Lolly Adefope

The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves…

— Ethel Waters

I have never felt the pain of not being white the way I've felt it since I've been a public figure/part of this entertainment…

— Azealia Banks