Character Quote by Raoul Peck

There's this responsibility you feel to present a certain thing that kind of respectability politics. I think that became the only accepted way of…

— Rick Famuyiwa

I don't wanna be like somebody that just depicts black characters where drugs and guns are just a majority of what they have to…

— Y'lan Noel

There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.

— James Earl Jones

I believe it's important to have equal opportunities as a black actor. My way of fighting for it is through my art, by not…

— Malachi Kirby

If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent that race…

— Dwayne McDuffie

I think it's a wonderful thing to have African-American characters. Look at life. It's not a white world or a black world; there are…

— Darius McCrary

There is an appetite for things that are different and a story with Black characters that's going to appeal to a lot of people.

— Cord Jefferson

I didn't want to write a 'black' book because black characters are a tough sell.

— Christopher Priest

I really am a guy who can be black and white. I don't understand, too much, the gray. And truly I can go from…

— Jean-Claude Van Damme

A character is never entirely white or black, there's never entirely right or wrong. You have to realize sometimes you face something, and then…

— Berenice Bejo

Some people in America don't ever interact with black people outside of television, so we should give them real, believable characters.

— Mike Colter

Black storytelling can be about anything, absolutely anything, and within that it can be as enriching, as complex, beautiful, ugly as anything else. We…

— Paterson Joseph